Words, language and human communication are beautiful.
In no particular order, here are some lovely words:
- Abnegation - The action of renouncing or rejecting something.
- Adroit - Clever or skilful.
- Ameliorate - Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
- Aureate - Golden or gilded; brilliant, splendid.
- Boondoggle - An unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.
- Bucolic - Relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
- Capricious - Changing often and quickly, or often changing suddenly in mood or behavior.
- Churlish - Marked by a lack of civility or graciousness.
- Copasetic - In excellent order.
- Coruscating - flashing; sparkling.
- Crepuscular - Relating to or resembling twilight; active during twilight.
- Curmudgeon - A person who is easily annoyed or angered, and often complains.
- Cynosure - A person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration.
- Denouement - The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
- Diaphanous - Light, delicate, and translucent.
- Dichotomy - A division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
- Distal - Situated away from the centre of the body or the point of attachment.
- Ebullient - Cheerful and full of energy.
- Ebullition - A sudden, violent outpouring, as of emotion.
- Echolalia - The uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person.
- Effervescent - Vivacious and enthusiastic.
- Effulgent - Shining brightly; radiant.
- Elysian - Relating to or characteristic of heaven or paradise.
- Enervating - Causing one to feel drained of energy or vitality; weakening.
- Ennui - A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.
- Ephemeral - Lasting for a very short time.
- Epiphany - A moment of sudden revelation or insight.
- Equanimity - Calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation.
- Erudite - Having or showing great knowledge or learning.
- Esoteric - Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.
- Ethereal - Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
- Evanescent - Quickly fading or disappearing.
- Garrulous - Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
- Halcyon - Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.
- Harangue - A lengthy and aggressive speech.
- Homunculus - A very small human or humanoid creature.
- Hypnagogic - Relating to the state immediately before falling asleep.
- Idiopathic - Relating to or denoting any disease or condition that arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown.
- Indolent - Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
- Ineffable - Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
- Insouciant - Showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
- Intransigence - Refusing to compromise or agree.
- Iridescent - Showing luminous colours that seem to change when seen from different angles.
- Juxtaposition - The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
- Labyrinthine - Like a labyrinth; intricate and confusing.
- Lachrymose - Tearful or given to weeping.
- Lexicological - A branch of linguistics concerned with the signification and application of words.
- Limerence - The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person.
- Liminal - Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
- Lissome - Thin, supple, and graceful.
- Loquacious - Tending to talk a great deal; talkative.
- Lugubrious - Looking or sounding sad and dismal.
- Maladroit - Iefficient or inept; clumsy.
- Maudlin - Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness.
- Mellifluous - Sweet or musical; pleasant to hear.
- Moribund - (of a person) at the point of death, (of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour.
- Myoclonic - Relating to or characterized by sudden, involuntary muscle jerks.
- Obfuscate - Render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
- Obsequious - Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
- Obstreperous - Noisy and difficult to control.
- Olfactory - Relating to the sense of smell.
- Oracular - Nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle.
- Penumbra - The partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.
- Peregrinate - Travel or wander around from place to place.
- Peregrination - A journey, especially a long or meandering one.
- Perfunctory - Without real interest, feeling, or effort.
- Perspicacious - Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.
- Phantasmagoria - A sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream.
- Plenipotentiary - Having full power to take independent action.
- Prolix - Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy.
- Proximal - Situated nearer to the centre of the body or the point of attachment.
- Pulchritude - Physical beauty.
- Pulchritudinous - Beautiful.
- Quixotic - Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.
- Recalcitrant - Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.
- Recondite - (Of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse.
- Reverential - Showing deep respect or admiration.
- Sagacious - Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; wise or shrewd.
- Seraphic - Characteristic of or resembling a seraph or seraphim; angelic.
- Serendipitous - Occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
- Sesquipedalian - (Of a word) polysyllabic; long. Often used to describe someone who uses long words.
- Soliloquy - An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
- Sonder - The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- Sonorous - Capable of producing a deep or ringing sound.
- Soporific - Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.
- Susurrus - Whispering, murmuring, or rustling.
- Sycophant - A person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage.
- Synesthesia - A condition in which one sense is experienced through another, such as seeing colours when hearing sounds.
- Taciturn - Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
- Tangential - Diverging from a previous course or line; erratic; hardly touching a matter; peripheral.
- Tautology - A statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.
- Tenebrous - Dark; shadowy or obscure.
- Torpor - A state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy.
- Truculent - Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
- Tumescent - Swollen or becoming swollen, especially as a response to sexual arousal.
- Turpitude - Depraved or immoral behavior, or a corrupt or degenerate act or practice.
- Ubiquitous - Present, appearing, or found everywhere.
- Verisimilitude - The appearance of being true or real.
- Winsome - Attractive or appealing in appearance or character.
- Zephyr - A soft, gentle breeze.
Honourable mentions
- Ablution - The act of washing oneself, often used for ritual purification.
- Adequate - Satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity.
- Autodidact - A self-taught person.
- Avid - Having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something.
- Cacophony - A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
- Celerity - Swiftness of movement.
- Conducive - Making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible.
- Cynosure - A person or thing that is the centre of attention or admiration.
- Disdain - Feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect.
- Fervour - Intense and passionate feeling.
- Forlorn - Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.
- Fortitude - Courage in pain or adversity.
- Inconsequentiality - The quality or state of being of little or no importance; triviality.
- Micturate - To urinate.
- Negate - Nullify; make ineffective.
- Palindromic - Relating to or being a palindrome; a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same forward and backward.
- Parabola - A symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side.
- Turgid - Excessively embellished in style or language; bombastic, pompous. Being in a state of distension; swollen, tumid.