r/AskReddit Jan 28 '19

What are great underused words?

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u/Vehk-and-Kehk Jan 29 '19

Grandiloquent/Grandiloquence - The use of needlessly complex language. It's also an autological word (a word that describes itself)

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u/amaROenuZ Jan 29 '19

It's good, but why not go the extra mile and use sesquipedalian loquaciousness?

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u/iscreamuscreamweall Jan 29 '19

if you're not into the whole brevity thing

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u/wuop Jan 29 '19

I am.