What do you call someone with a big vocabulary?

What do you call someone with a big vocabulary?

4. As @PLL and @fotunate1 noted, lexicomane and sesquipedalian are probably the words that most accurately describe someone with a big vocabulary.

What do you call a person who tries to impress?

flamboyant. adjective. behaving or dressing in a way that deliberately attracts attention.

What do you call someone with good vocabulary?

Good vocabulary: Eloquent, well-versed, well-spoken, erudite, articulate. Poor vocabulary: linguistically challenged, inarticulate.

What does a sesquipedalian mean?

Definition of sesquipedalian 1 : having many syllables : long sesquipedalian terms. 2 : given to or characterized by the use of long words a sesquipedalian television commentator.

What is a Vocabulist?

vocabulist in British English (vəˈkæbjʊlɪst) noun. a vocabulary. someone who compiles a vocabulary.

What is please someone?

to make someone feel happy or satisfied, or to give someone pleasure: [ I/T ] He did what he could to please her, but she was hard to please.

What do you call someone who pleases others?

altruistic Add to list Share. Someone who is altruistic always puts others first.

Is Vocabulistic a real word?

Vocabulistics: noun. The study of vocabulary, one who studies this is a vocabulist.

What do you call a person who always uses big words?

Re: Someone who shows off by always using big words… malapropist (adj. form malapropos) is likely what you seek, but as long as you’re relating it to big words you should consider ‘catachresis’ – defined by Silva Rhetoricae as a vice in which a word is used in a context that differs from its proper application.

Why do people like to use big words?

There are a lot of people who do what you’re describing, use “big words” in a way that is slightly off, or to intimidate or show off. There are also a lot of people, like me, who use unusual words because we *like* words.

How do smart people cover up their ignorance with big words?

Smart people don’t cover up their ignorance with anything, they advertise it with humility in the hope mor If they use them with meaning and purpose you call them eloquent, or articulate. If they use them regularly (we all, after all, make mistakes) without full understanding you call them pseudointellectual. ‘Big words’ have their uses.

What do you call someone who uses Quora’s Quora quotes?

, Only Quora user who isn’t a socially maladjusted INTJ genius. If they use them with meaning and purpose you call them eloquent, or articulate. If they use them regularly (we all, after all, make mistakes) without full understanding you call them pseudointellectual.