The 100 most beautiful words in the English language

[Sirius]

I found this (as well)

It may help some of us to add more beauty to our glitteryness™ (had to trademark it, since Taha ^_^)

The beauty of words, I never really thought about at all before. I used to enjoy writing, I suppose I still do, I like making really 'flicky' F's :p ƒ nearly

I think I'll try and fit "Effervescent" into the affirmation thread somewhere.

2 interesting appearances on the list. Epiphany.Ethereal.

I don't know if it's personal to me, but seeing onomatopoeia had me chuckling for a while.

Some of the words I've never even seen before!!

I hope you find this as fascinating as I have done!!

Love and Light!

How do we know we have the most beautiful? They were chosen by Dr. Goodword (Robert Beard), who has been making dictionaries, creating word lists, and writing poetry for 40 years. For five years he wrote the Word of the Day at yourDictionary.com and since 2004 he has been writing the series, So, What's the Good Word? here at alphaDictionary. Below is a select list of his favorite poetical words that he used in his poetry—or wishes he had.

Aestivate
Ailurophile
Assemblage
Becoming
Beleaguer
Billet-doux
Brood
Bucolic
Bungalow
Chatoyant
Comely
Conflate
Cynosure
Dalliance
Demesne
Demure
Denouement
Desuetude
Desultory
Diaphanous
Dissemble
Dulcet
Ebullient
Effervescent
Efflorescence
Elision
Elixir
Eloquence
Embrocation
Emollient
Ephemeral
Epiphany
Erstwhile
Esculent
Ethereal
Evanescent
Evocative
Fetching
Felicitous
Fluke
Forbearance
Fugacious
Furtive
Gambol
Glamour
Gossamer
Halcyon
Imbrication
Imbroglio
Imbue
Incipient
Ineffable
Ingenue
Inglenook
Insouciance
Inure
Lagniappe
Lagoon
Languor
Lassitude
Leisure
Lilt
Lissome
Lithe
Luxuriant
Mellifluous
Moiety
Mondegreen
Murmur
Nemesis
Niveous
Odalisque
Offing
Onomatopoeia
Opulent
Palimpsest
Panacea
Panoply
Pastiche
Peccadillo
Penumbra
Petrichor
Plethora
Propinquity
Pyrrhic
Quintessential
Ratatouille
Redolent
Riparian
Ripple
Scintilla
Sempiternal
Seraglio
Serendipity
Surreptitious
Sumptuous
Sussurous
Symbiosis
Talisman
Tintinnabulation
Umbrageous
Umbrella
Untoward
Vestige
Viridescent
Waft
Wherewithal

Source

[ayadew]

Mushroom

[Richard]

Quietude

Richard

[Ali Quadir]

Lunch?

[pluralone]

zephyr

[AlexKawajima]

Thats pretty cool about the word Ethereal. My band has a song called Ethereal Disembodiment. You could say its about the process of becoming etherial when after you die. It almost doesn't make sense, but it works musically.

What is waft?

[Sirius]

so far as we use it here in the UK,
waving your hands over a camp fire to give it extra air, wafting the fire

Just for interests sake, if you ever have a word you do not understand do a google search Define:Waft

Love and Light

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Maybe LLResearch should suggest thier deffinition of Ra? ^^

[Phoenix]

I liked it.

Fugacious, mellifluous, Pyrrhic, Halcyon. Words that I have now learn't. A bit.

One of my favourites that are not listed is 'nefarious'.

[Plenum]

Aestivate
Ailurophile
Assemblage
Becoming
Beleaguer
Billet-doux
Brood
Bucolic
Bungalow
Chatoyant
Comely
Conflate
Cynosure
Dalliance
Demesne
Demure
Denouement
Desuetude
Desultory
Diaphanous
Dissemble
Dulcet
Ebullient
Effervescent
Efflorescence
Elision
Elixir
Eloquence
Embrocation
Emollient
Ephemeral
Epiphany
Erstwhile
Esculent
Ethereal
Evanescent
Evocative
Fetching
Felicitous
Fluke
Forbearance
Fugacious
Furtive
Gambol
Glamour
Gossamer
Halcyon
Imbrication
Imbroglio
Imbue
Incipient
Ineffable
Ingenue
Inglenook
Insouciance
Inure
Lagniappe
Lagoon
Languor
Lassitude
Leisure
Lilt
Lissome
Lithe
Luxuriant
Mellifluous
Moiety
Mondegreen
Murmur
Nemesis
Niveous
Odalisque
Offing
Onomatopoeia
Opulent
Palimpsest
Panacea
Panoply
Pastiche
Peccadillo
Penumbra
Petrichor
Plethora
Propinquity
Pyrrhic
Quintessential
Ratatouille
Redolent
Riparian
Ripple
Scintilla
Sempiternal
Seraglio
Serendipity
Surreptitious
Sumptuous
Sussurous
Symbiosis
Talisman
Tintinnabulation
Umbrageous
Umbrella
Untoward
Vestige
Viridescent
Waft
Wherewithal

Source

as Ra says, sounds have power:

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74.19 Questioner: How did the users of these sounds, Sanskrit and Hebrew, determine what these sounds were?
Ra: I am Ra. In the case of the Hebrew that entity known as Yahweh aided this knowledge through impression upon the material of genetic coding which became language, as you call it.

In the case of Sanskrit the sound vibrations are pure due to the lack of previous, what you call, alphabet or letter-naming. Thus the sound vibration complexes seemed to fall into place as from the Logos. This was a more, shall we say, natural or unaided situation or process.


75.26 Questioner: You spoke in a previous session about certain Hebrew and Sanskrit sound vibratory complexes being powerful because they were mathematically related to that which was the creation. Could you expand on this understanding as to how these are linked?

Ra: I am Ra. As we previously stated the linkage is mathematical or that of the ratio you may consider musical. There are those whose mind complex activities would attempt to resolve this mathematical ratio but at present the coloration of the intoned vowel is part of the vibration which cannot be accurately measured. However, it is equivalent to types of rotation of your primary material particles.

75.28 Questioner: Would these sounds, then, be of a musical nature in that there would be a musical arrangement of many different sound vibrations, or would this apply to just one single note? Which would it apply more to?

Ra: I am Ra. This query is not easily answered. In some cases only the intoned vowel has effect. In other cases, most notably Sanskrit combinations, the selection of harmonic intervals is also of resonant nature.

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I went through a phase in my mid-college years when I devoured languages. I never became proficient in any of them lol, but I did acquaint myself with many basic grammars and taught myself the more common scripts (Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hindi). Good times.

I also went through a phase when I studied etymology; that is, the roots and origins of the words we have in the English Language today. Makes one keenly aware of how polyglot our language really is: it has a germanic base with a heavy infusion of french, and 'steals' words from other languages with abandon.

I think I'll miss English when I return to my home density. I'm going to have to teach my soul group how to speak it lol.

[Meerie]

the most beautiful word is missing from the list, strangely enough.

LOVE

and I also like the words "subtle" and "eternity".

[Ankh]

Distortion/s

[norral]

when i looked at the title i saw the hundred most beautiful wo

i thought it was going to say women , so other than my wife, the absolutely

most beautiful woman, who i had a huge crush on as a kid was

drum roll please,

the one the only

miss sophia loren no doubt about it followed closely by miss gina lola brigada

what can i say italy has got it going on and her name does sound beautiful

[Meerie]

yes norral I thought that too, and I was like "wtf is going on here? the forum gets so superficial" lol
I think you have good taste though
and hey, these actresses looked like women back in the day!

[βαθμιαίος]

Interestingly, the list has changed since this was posted in 2009.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/...words.html

Dropped:
Aestivate
Billet-Doux
Esculent
Fluke
Luxuriant
Niveous
Odalisque
Peccadillo
Symbiosis
Umbrageous
Viridescent

Added:
Harbinger
Labyrinthine
Love
Ravel
Summery
Susquehanna
Woebegone

Changed:
Ebullient -> Ebullience
Felicitous -> Felicity
Murmur -> Murmurous
Vestige -> Vestigial
Waft -> Wafture

[Ankh]

The most adorable word by Ra:

*Honestation*

[BrownEye]

when i looked at the title i saw the hundred most beautiful wo

Yeah, the word women should be on the list.

(along with some other descriptive words)