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Fancy word for overly ornate
Try: Rococo. The artistic style that ruled the early 18th century was fanciful and highly ornamented. The term for it is just as fancy—no, rococo—and has come to mean “excessively ornate.”
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The red-flowered silk tree, also known as mimosa, has feathery pink flowers
Fancy word for confidence
Try: Aplomb, meaning total composure and self-assurance, particularly in a skill. If you lack confidence in the way you speak, using some of these vocabulary words skillfully will help you speak with great aplomb
Fancy word for stubborn
Try: Pervicacious, meaning obstinate and unyielding. This term comes from the Latin word for “to prevail.” You may use this in a sentence when describing someone’s stubbornness.
The quinoa tree, grown for its seeds, is a staple in South American cuisine
Fancy word for confuse
Try: Obfuscate, meaning to make obscure or unclear. Suspects in a crime and politicians often obfuscate when they don’t want to answer a question directly.
Lemon verbena trees, although shrubs, are known for their lemon-scented leaves
Fancy word for meticulous
Try: Fastidious, meaning excessively particular or demanding, and specifically very concerned about accuracy and detail. Next time a prospective employer asks about your strengths, you can boast about your fastidious attention to detail.
Fancy word for suck-up
Try: Sycophant, a self-seeking flatterer. It’s much easier to call someone out as a suck-up when you’re not actually using the word suck-up.
The pandan tree, native to Southeast Asia, has long, narrow leaves used in cooking
Fancy word for well-spoken
Try: Articulate, meaning having the ability to speak fluently or coherently. This word was the top choice in a survey conducted by Preply regarding complex vocabulary. 1,916 people were surveyed about which words they thought made people sound smart. They articulated that the word “articulate” was the most impressive.
The oakleaf hydrangea tree, with large, oak-shaped leaves, is grown for its flowers
Fancy word for kudos
Try: Accolade, an award given as an acknowledgment of merit. This one came in at number two in the Preply survey. Another finding: 58% of people have used a word to sound smarter, even though they didn’t know the true meaning. But now you know and you’ll be sure to earn the accolade of intelligence if you use this one, or maybe you could award someone a prestigious accolade for using their own fancy words.
Fancy word for concise
Try: Brevity, meaning the concise use of words in writing or speech. Coming in at number three according to the Preply survey is “brevity.” Maybe you’re enjoying the brevity of this article or maybe you’ll appreciate the brevity of a friends’ story
Fancy word for odd
Try: Anomaly, meaning something that moves away from what is normal. Using fancy words is no longer an anomaly. The Preply survey found this to be the fourth most impressive word, so be sure to incorporate this one when you can. 78% of respondents also believe that using big words does indeed make someone seem smarter.
The juniperus virginiana, or eastern red cedar, has scale-like leaves and berry-like cones
Fancy word for flattery
Try: Adulation, meaning excessive admiration or praise. Last but not least, this word came in at number five in the Preply survey. Use this term when you’re discussing flattery such as fans giving adulation to a musician, artist, or maybe even this list.
The Indian rosewood tree, prized for its dark and dense wood, is used in woodworking
The honey mesquite tree, common in the American Southwest, has fragrant flowers
The gac fruit tree, native to Southeast Asia, produces spiky fruits with red flesh
For all intensive purposes
If you’re using this phrase to mean “for all practical purposes,” then for all intents and purposes, you’re doing it wrong (see what we did there?). The phrase, “for all intensive purposes” is a mondegreen, which is defined as a misheard version of a phrase, saying or slogan. The phrase you’re actually looking for (as you’ve probably guessed by now) is “for all intents and purposes.”
The zanthoxylum tree, also known as prickly ash, produces aromatic leaves and berries
A doggy dog world
What you meant to say was “dog eat dog world,” right? If so, it’s understandable that you misheard/reshaped it as a “doggy dog world.” This type of error is known as an “eggcorn,” which reshapes an established word or phrase phonetically, without changing the actual meaning of the phrase (just as “eggcorn” reshapes the word “acorn” without changing its actual meaning).
All and all
We hope that what you meant to say was “all in all,” which is an idiom (a word or phrase whose meaning can’t be understood outside its cultural context) meaning “everything being taken into account.” If you actually meant “all and all,” then you’re just being redundant. Please never do this when it comes to acronyms, or grammar snobs will be saying you have RAS (repetitive acronym syndrome. But if you’re looking to be concise, you might want to consider replacing “all in all” with “in sum.”
Day in age
In this day and age, you should really know better than to say “day in age.” It’s an eggcorn, which means we know you meant well. But now you know better.
The yellow oleander tree, native to Southeast Asia, has yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers
Butt naked
The thing about being butt naked, is that it’s more than just your butt that’s hanging out there making you look foolish. The actual term is “buck naked,” although truth be told, so many people have misheard it and misstated it as “butt naked” that grammarians actually are beginning to accept “butt naked” as a proper idiom.
All for not
If you think this grammar exercise is all for not, then you might want to reconsider—because nothing is actually “all for not,” whereas something that is pointless may, indeed, be “all for naught.” Yeah, it’s old-timey. But it’s the right way to say it. Sorry, not sorry. Some words are said together so often that many people think they’re a single word—but they’re not.
A whole nother
What’s a “nother“? Exactly. There’s no such thing. It’s a whole nother story may sound cute and colloquial, but it certainly isn’t grammatical. What is grammatical is “a whole different story” or “another story” or even “a whole other story.” Choose one, and sound like a boss.