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Pulchritudinous: your fun vocabulary word for the day!
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/pulchritudinousEven though it looks (and sounds) like it would describe a disease or a bad attitude, pulchritudinous actually describes a person of breathtaking, heartbreaking...beauty.
Let's be honest: Your opportunities for using this word in casual conversation are probably pretty slim. But, just in case, let's do a quick run-down on the pronunciation: Pulchritudinous: "pul-kruh-TOO-di-nuhs." And one last note about this 15-letter, 5-syllable beast (which may win the award for least-beautiful word meaning "beautiful"
: It's only used to describe people.
Definitions of
pulchritudinous
1
adj used of persons only; having great physical beauty
Let's be honest: Your opportunities for using this word in casual conversation are probably pretty slim. But, just in case, let's do a quick run-down on the pronunciation: Pulchritudinous: "pul-kruh-TOO-di-nuhs." And one last note about this 15-letter, 5-syllable beast (which may win the award for least-beautiful word meaning "beautiful"
: It's only used to describe people.
Definitions of
pulchritudinous
1
adj used of persons only; having great physical beauty
to the UK Daily Mail, good for teaching me a new word
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Callypigian: Having well-shaped buttocks. I think the word itself sounds like some kind of deformed, hybrid bird. 