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DEFINITION: n. A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity. v. To be excessively patient.
Verboticisms
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Ultraprocrastination
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: altra-prau-krsti-nation
Sentence: people with ultraprocrastination have never been men of action.
Etymology: ultra means very hight or excessive one. procrastination means to delay or not taking action.
Supervirtuation
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: soo-per-ver-chew-ay-shun
Sentence: The grandmasters' supervirtuation meant their pieces moving at no more than three squares per hour.
Etymology: Based on the proverb "patience is a virtue".
Exatience
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (ecks-ay-shense)
Sentence: She stood waiting there with exatience not realizing she had been stood up.
Etymology: "Excessive" (unrestrained) and "patience" (intolerance).
Jobeness
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jobe/ness
Sentence: He felt that exercising extreme jobeness by waiting for the perfect pitch would result in fame and prosperity
Etymology: Job (as in the patience of Job) + ness (a character with special powers from the video game Earthbound)
Slackution
Created by: Karuma
Pronunciation: slak-oo-shun
Sentence: he was way too slackution to even notice he passed the place.
Etymology:
Opportimistic
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: op ur ti MIS tik
Sentence: Alan was opportimistic that this time he would find just the right work-from-home scheme. He considered it "job-hunting" when he was surfing the Web for ways to earn cash in his free time. And he had a LOT of free time now, since losing his job due to excessive time spent surfing the Web.
Etymology: opportunity + optimistic
Overdostoic
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: oh-ver-doh-stow-ick
Sentence: People sometimes wondered if Jim's placid acceptance in the face of life's onslaughts was motivated less by monastic zen, and more by an innate laziness and overdostoicism.
Etymology: overdose (an excessive amount) + stoic (one who is indifferent and free of passion)
Fortispud
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation: four-ti-spud
Sentence: He's fortispuding the opportunity to advance his career.
Etymology: from Fortitude meaning patience from Spud as in couch potato
Perfectopp
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Per-fect-opp
Sentence: I will perfectopp for the perfect pitch.
Etymology: Perfect oppertunity
Expectwaitions
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: expeck - wayt - shuns
Sentence: Jimmy was ever so patient, he had high expectwaitions that if he stood there long enough, the right pitch would eventually be his.
Etymology: expectations, wait
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COMMENTS:
very well crafted. - splendiction, 2009-10-05: 22:57:00
good one - Nosila, 2009-10-06: 01:17:00
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Comments:
mplsbohemian - 2007-03-19: 10:42:00
This is the best batch of words I've seen yet. :)
wordmeister - 2007-03-19: 17:50:00
There so many good ones... But which one should I vote for? I'd like to zensist on a cialusmoment but I may have too much infinatience and succumb to preparalysis, or even aucoporence. Is this caseyatthebatititude, or just godotancy?
Hey Verbotomists, Great words last week. Nosila was the top player, but since she won "The Eyre Affair", the prize "Lost in a Good Book" goes to mrskellyscl. This week we are giving away Jasper Fforde's "The Well of Lost Plots". Be creative, and good luck to all. ~ James