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DEFINITION: v. To see beauty in the midst of a complete disaster. n. The ability to see beauty in the rainbow hues of a toxic oil spill, or in the remnants of a poster torn down long ago, or in the subtle cracks in the plaster of a cheap, cold-water flat.
Verboticisms
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Raliquake
Created by: ColeyPTrain
Pronunciation: Ral-uh-Kway-K
Sentence: The car was immediately flipped once the drove through the raliquake.
Etymology: A combination of the words earthquake and real.
Beatihoridberg
Created by: meganfis
Pronunciation: Beati-horid-berg
Sentence: Oh, my, dog look how beatihoridberg that colorful poisoness beatle is!
Etymology: Beati- meaning the beautiful looking object. Horid- gross situation. Berg- the place of accident
Beholderall
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: be hol der all
Sentence: Rosie could see the good in everything. She was an eternal optimist and therefore she could beholderall anything life threw at her with a positive outlook. That is why when she was surfing off the Queensland Gold Coast and fell into azure waters, she marvelled at the size of the giant white shark, the whiteness and sharpness of his many teeth and the fact that she was dying doing what she loved best...surfing and being shark-bait!
Etymology: Beholder (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses;perceiver...ie: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder) & Holdall (a capacious bag or basket)
Quickfixotic
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: quihk-fihx-ah-tihc
Sentence: The sun was rising as the waters reached the second floor windows of their home. Rube had been at work all night singing "Running Bear loved little White Dove, with a love, deep as the sea...". Now, he was putting the finishing touches on the canoe he had been cheerfully carving from the large tree filling most of their bedroom. As Rube's wife climbed in, it dawned on her that her husband might be an incurable quickfixotic.
Etymology: Building on QUIXOTIC (from Don Quixote/chasing windmills/Man of La Mancha), meaning idealistic in a romantic or impractical way + QUICK FIX
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COMMENTS:
super - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-13: 05:55:00
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Floptimism
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: flop tim izm
Sentence: Sally was driving with her boyfriend Kevin. Unfortunately, he sped too much, skidded,flipped and did a lot of damage to their car. Was she mad? No. Sally, who had chronic floptimism, thought thankfully that Kevin would not notice the crack she had put in the windshield last week or the broken off mirror so much now...
Etymology: Flop (fail utterly; collapse)& Optimism (a general disposition to expect the best in all things;the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well)
Posithink
Created by: DrDurrer
Pronunciation: Pos-i-think
Sentence: Michael, being very posithink, smiled even though he was in a tough situation because even though the Ravens had lost the previous night he had the Broncos defense on his fantasy team
Etymology: Posi = positive. Think = To think
Uncraptomistic
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: un - krap - to - mis - tyk
Sentence: Ever since Becky had her medication changed, she was uncraptomisitc about whatever life had thrown her way
Etymology: un-crap ( not crappy but good) + optomistic
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COMMENTS:
Simply beautiful! - emdeejay, 2009-05-13: 01:52:00
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Pausepective
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: Poz pek tif
Sentence: Pandora viewed tragedies differently than others...she had a different pausepective when it came to bad things or events. Like when she saw the red blood ooze from the wounds her knife had inflicted upon her unfaithful boyfriend, she thought, "Cool, that's the exact same shade as my new nail polish!" Or when she spied the blue tinge to his lips which happened after she had administered the cyanide in his cocktail. It was the grey-blue of the clouds before a violent thunderstorm. She just had to stop listening to that tune from "Chicago"..."He had it coming...he had it coming...!"
Etymology: Pause (reflect, take a moment to consider or think about) & Pos ( abbreviation of positive;involving advantage or good) & Persepective (a way of regarding situations or topics etc; viewpoint; vantage point)
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COMMENTS:
Pandora seems to be quite the extolminatrix! - dochanne, 2009-05-12: 05:22:00
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Beautastrophous
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: Byou-tas-truh-fuss
Sentence: Not only was Linda ambidextrious, but she was beautastrophous as well. As we stared at the morning dew steaming off the burnt stumps of the forest fire, she exclaimed, "It's so beautiful."....
Etymology: 1) "Beau"-from beauty 2) "tastrophous" from castasrophe 3) "ous" indicating the presence of an ability as it pertains to a person. pertaining to a person's ability.
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COMMENTS:
Beautastrophy would be the word for the ability in general, but my word is as it is connected to a person. - logan260, 2012-04-27: 11:07:00
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Aesthetslick
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ess-thet-slick
Sentence: While the workers toiled cleaning up the oil covered beach, several aesthetslicks tried to stop them from clearing the shiny, rainbow-hued slicks that washed up with the surf.
Etymology: aesthetic (pertaining to beauty) + slick (as in oil)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-13: 05:56:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx Thank you metrohumanx ~ James
abrakadeborah - 2009-05-14: 11:24:00
Metro, You're amazing! I really enjoy your definitions! I hope my word "Iridescentdisaster" does justice of your artistic visions. :) Great cartoon too "Verbotoartist"
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James