RAPACIOUS
Adjective:
- Greedy; ravenous.
- Subsisting on live prey. [TheFreeDictionary]
DF:
‘The difference between Google’s predatory rapaciousness today and Microsoft’s of yore is that Microsoft wore it on their sleeve, they owned it, celebrated it.’
‘Microsoft’s of yore’. So eloquent.
LUSTROUS
PERENNIAL
Adjective:
‘While there’s a perennial debate on the West Coast about whether and when business cards might become irrelevant, they continue to be at the center of business customs in China and Japan.’ [X]
DIAMETRIC
OSTENTATIOUS
Adjective:
‘The problem with Segway is that almost no one wanted a $4000 scooter, and the only people that Segway did appeal to were socially-maladjusted, self-centered, self-important, “Hey everybody, look at me! I’m using this ostentatious expensive new gadget!” blowhards like Peter Shankman.’ [X]
INSCRUTABLE
English Language Question
How come words like artist, theist/atheist, moralist, etc… can have a form that ends in “ic” such as something that an artist does being artistic and something an atheist says is atheistic, when words like racist, feminist, etc…are usually used without the “ic” (when a feminist says something they are being feminist, not feministic)?
Is this simply slang over correct grammar or is there a grammatical reason for this difference?
Thanks.
FEMINISTIC
Adjective:
- A mixture of feministic and fantastic.
‘That girl is so feministic!’
APPURTENANT
CASEOUS
PENT-UP
TACITURN
Adjective:
- Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak. [W]
Via FreeRice.com.
This is probably the tenth or so time that I mention this, but FreeRice.com is probably the best idea since sandwich.
