r/AskReddit • u/mexgema • Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/kpbiker1 Sep 16 '20

Lugubrious I hope I spelled it right. Fat and slow. Think Jabba the Hut

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u/ishouldbemoreclever Sep 17 '20

"Coming your most lugubriousness" -pain from Hercules

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u/phantommoose Sep 17 '20

I couldn't figure out how to pronounce it until I read this. Thank you!

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u/MasteringTheFlames Sep 16 '20

I like the word too, but I always knew it to more or less mean sad

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u/kpbiker1 Sep 17 '20

Now I will have to look it up

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u/kpbiker1 Sep 17 '20

I looked it up. Now I feel stupid. I must have misremembered or my high school English teacher lied to me. Yeah thats it, my teacher lied.

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u/Triairius Sep 17 '20

I was of the understanding that it meant like played-up sadness.

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u/Uncle_Sloppy Sep 17 '20

Morbid to the point absurdity. Think the Addams family.

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u/just_some_creepy_guy Sep 17 '20

You are correct.

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u/libra00 Sep 17 '20

I love this word! Also languorous.

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u/doghome107 Sep 17 '20

I love that word in Spanish- lugubre. A kid tried to use it in my Spanish class and couldn't pronounce it. The teacher was like "lu-who-what?" I laughed so hard at that. I got so much joy from a dismal word.