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Re: Negative Words
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Originally posted by Chalamomska
Chalamomska
Negative Words
Disheveled.
Hapless.
Insipid.
Ruthless.
Antonyms:
Disheveled - groomed, neat, ordered, sharp, tidy, unwrinkled
Hapless - fortunate, lucky
Insipid - interesting
Ruthless - compassionate, merciful
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I think what she's saying is that there is no direct positive, in the sense that once cannot be "heveled" rather than "disheveled", "sipid" instead of "insipid", "hap", or "ruth" vs. "hapless" and "ruthless".
One can manly vs. unmanly, or natural vs. unnatural, but not sipid vs. insipid.
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Can one look "kempt"?
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Chalamomska
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I should have specified a corresponding word which is COGNATE with the negative word, ruthful person.
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Chalamomska
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quote:
Originally posted by Talarohk
Can one look "kempt"?
Not according to my small, desktop dictionary. Nor can one be "peccable."
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quote:
Originally posted by Talarohk
Can one look "kempt"?
Yes, as in the phrase "well kempt".
kempt Pronunciation (kmpt)
adj. Tidy; trim: a nicely kempt beard.
Ruthful:
Synonyms:
afflicted, afflictive, anguished, calamitous, deplorable, dire, distressing, doleful, dolent, dolesome, grievous, harrowing, heart-rending, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms:
cheerful, cheery, happy, hopeful, upbeat
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One most certainly may be peccable.
Peccable
Adj. 1. peccable - liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott
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Also, insipid comes from the word sipid, meaning flavorful or tasty.
Sip´id
a. 1. Having a taste or flavor savory; sapid.
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"ruth" is used on its own, albeit infrequently. "compassion or pity for another".
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don't make us define "nert"!!!1111111
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Large Filipino
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Negative words no positive.
Shithead.
Asshole.
Poopiebrain.
Tookie.
Fuck.
Catheter.
Priest.
Owie.
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Originally posted by Large Filipino
Negative words no positive.
Shithead.
Asshole.
Poopiebrain.
Tookie.
Fuck.
Catheter.
Priest.
Owie.
You forgot an important pair.
flp
pinoy
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asshole and fuck are negative words?
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Large Filipino
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Those are both good words though.
This thread confuses me.
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Large Filipino
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quote:
Originally posted by Hawley Griffin
asshole and fuck are negative words?
Negative is but an opinion.
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Chalamomska
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quote:
Originally posted by Large Filipino
This thread confuses me.
It’s just a game for people who enjoy words.
There are a lot of negative words in English that have no obvious corresponding positive word. As a couple of the contributors have pointed out, sometimes the corresponding positive word is obscure or archaic. “Ruthless” and “ruth” or “ruthful,” “insipid” and “sapid,” “impeccable” and “peccable” as examples. Sometimes the positive word is not obvious. “Adept” is the opposite of “inept,” and the opposite of “innocuous” is “noxious.”
English is full of these fun words. Some of them are INANE, but they leave me DISGRUNTLED and NONPLUSSED, just the same.
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Large Filipino
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noxious.
Knock see us?
Know ex ee us?
What does that word......never mind. I'll look it up.
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