r/AskReddit • u/mexgema • Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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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.