“A pretty word, if it is rightly said, is better than a profound truth.” — William Shakespeare
And we agree! We are all seeking for something beautiful to say and that can evoke emotions in the reader. This is why we compiled a list of pretty words in English.
It is the language of all our lives. And it has, in fact, become a necessity for all our communications. While no one can argue that English is not complex, we are proud to say that it is still a simple language with a lot of beauty.
Pretty words in English is a project of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. We have been working on this project since 2013, and it has evolved into an independent website that offers an alternative to standard dictionaries. The site focuses on providing innovative definitions, alternatives, and examples for English-language usage. We also provide information about aspects of language that are generally neglected by traditional dictionaries.
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The Top 10 Most Beautiful English Words
Sequoia
Sequoia is the most popular Google Translate model for English because of its striking resemblance to women’s bodies, according to a study.
Euphoria
The experience of euphoria is “an indescribably pleasurable feeling experienced during all phases of antidepressant response.” Euphoria is a state of intense happiness, and having this feeling can be often linked to existing symptoms of mental illness such as mania.
Repentant – “having had previous unfavorable experience” which has become an adjective in related fields, inspired by the word repentance that would naturally seem like something light. However, it is still striking because of being able to change back after one episode during depression while others are condemned forever with such words as reclusive.
Pluviophile
A pluvophile is a person who loves the rain. Pluvisexuality describes someone with “a personality characterized by an exuberance of feelings and emotions at the prospect of being romantic or physical intimate in association with another that depends on whether it was raining when they first knew each other.”
Clinomania
Excessive desire to stay in bed. Example: I definitely have clinomania; I love sleeping, making mornings a struggle for me.
Idyllic
“Idyllic ” is an English word that has been introduced from German during the 18th century. It translates to idylic or idaylical in a latin context (“idyllus” meaning old Italian form of Greek: ιδύλος ), and meant by analogy, place of retirement.
Aurora
The Aurora Borealis is a natural light display or Northern Lights that occur in the Earth’s upper atmosphere when ions collide with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen.
Interrogative Sentence Puzzler (ISS)
A fancier explanation can be found here: Interrobang Trivia Questions – The SuperScientist Blog . Source It’s like this little button at the bottom-right corner on your app screen to pop up an interrogation alien (think Star Wars entrance pit.)
It’s a similar concept to the use of hashtags. You can insert them into your text in any manner you see fit, such as after or before words and sentences that are part of an argumentative discourse between two sides with equal weight. In that way, they become more conversation-handle designators than textual units displaying sentences at all times.
Solitude
Solitude and loneliness is considered as a part of the human condition that should not be hidden but exposed.
Supine
Supine meaning ‘lying prone’ is defined as lying down, usually on the back. It is a modification of “supine” from Latin supereia.
Tropicana Soda was originally invented in 1926 by Dewars Distillers for Americans who wanted their favorite Lucky Strike cigarettes to have that soft drink experience available with those cool machines – so people wouldn’t go pick up drinks after work like they did before (back when it was born in 1879).
Petrichor
Also known as the Perfume of Rain, it is the aroma characteristic to rain when its source is a tropical climate. It’s the smell that meteorologists can detect before they see cloud-free skies during a storm in areas with seasonal monsoons (a double rainy season).
Benjamine Rhysdwall says it’s more commonly referred to by Australians and New Zealanders as ‘misty morning’ or even better still, ‘left-on-the porch in the morning’ scent to lark about.
This term can also refer to popularized perceptions of “perfumes” such as certain varieties of ones that are defined by their smell: musk, lemon grass, orange and jasmine being some examples. Source 1, source 2. The Vietnamese have known this fragrance for centuries associated with hope during a time when there is no hope at all.
Tonic ending with homonym The “te” element of this term connotes Tea as in Thé, a beverage made from the infusion of tea leaves and/or herbs. However, it is used to refer to common bitters more commonly known by single compounds: most notably alcohols such as port or vodka (bourbon), also carbonated beverages like beers or tonic water.
Serendipity
This is a term related to serendipity, especially the way in which it often brings together incompatible things.
On Being Serene Alice Waters says she loves this expression because “an Englishman, Thomas De Quincy, used the words ‘serene’ and ‘being’ as synonyms,” according to Wikipedia. She goes further on her website for Wallflower Press saying ” It makes sense that he would come across these two words.”
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