Verboticism: Posithink
DEFINITION: v. To see beauty in the midst of a complete disaster. n. The ability to see beauty in the rainbow hues of a toxic oil spill, or in the remnants of a poster torn down long ago, or in the subtle cracks in the plaster of a cheap, cold-water flat.
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Optomaster
Created by: 720621
Pronunciation: op-tom-as-ter
Sentence: She was bieng optomaster despite her condition.
Etymology: optom= optomistic aster= disaster
Blissted
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: blihss-tehd
Sentence: Louisse was happy she was so enlightened that she could enjoy all the sensory experiences of the car crash. Luckily, Bob knew just how blissted she always was, and pulled her out just before the explosion.
Etymology: bliss (extreme happiness, ecstacy) + twisted (distorted)
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COMMENTS:
I like your sentences! - readerwriter, 2009-05-12: 15:30:00
you hit it out of the park, great word, amazingly funny sentence - DrWebster111, 2009-05-12: 21:38:00
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Crashtastic
Created by: AllisonLittell
Pronunciation: Crash-tas-tic
Sentence: I had a crashtastic day when I ran over my bills.
Etymology: Crash: collide violently with an obstacle or vehicle tastic: fantastic
Blondeoptomism
Created by: gbegun
Pronunciation: blond-Op-toe-mism
Sentence: Stacy received a compound fracture when she fell from her Vespa but with her massive amounts of blondeoptomism, she only thought of the pretty white color of her protruding femur.
Etymology: blonde-dumb, stupid, gullible optimism- Hopefulness, confidence
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COMMENTS:
and yes i spelled OPTIMISM wrong - gbegun, 2013-09-06: 15:10:00
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Beautifail
Created by: dekra
Pronunciation: bew-tih-fale
Sentence: She had a habit of seeing the beautifail in any situation, like the bright green and brown hues of the compost pile, or the colored styrofoam floating in the blue ocean water.
Etymology: Beautiful + Failure
Blightism
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: blytizim
Sentence: Doug liked the way the orange juice looked spilled all over the blue tiles. He told me he is into blightism. I asked him, "Is it an ism or is it an art?"
Etymology: blight + ism
Chaotickledpink
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kay yot ik ild pink
Sentence: The ability to be chaotickledpink is generally a solitary pleasure.
Etymology: chaotic tickled pink
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COMMENTS:
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-13: 05:53:00
I LOVE IT! - griffiegrrl, 2009-05-13: 12:31:00
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Pollyanalyst
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: polly-an-al-ist
Sentence: Mary, a certified pollyanalyst, came close to losing her license after she tried to lead a chorus of "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" at Daddy Warbuck's wake.
Etymology: Pollyanna: a person regarded as blindly or foolishly optimistic -- named after the heroine of the novel "Pollyanna" by Eleanor Hodgman Porter and the movie starring Haley Mills about a dreadfully optimistic child very much like the equally dreadful child movie, "Little Orphan Annie." + analyst: one who is adept at examining a whole and breaking it down into it's parts for examination.
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2009-05-12: 07:46:00
This is a fab verbotomy! - readerwriter, 2009-05-12: 11:19:00
terrific word!! - libertybelle, 2009-05-12: 12:13:00
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-13: 05:53:00
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Pausepective
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: Poz pek tif
Sentence: Pandora viewed tragedies differently than others...she had a different pausepective when it came to bad things or events. Like when she saw the red blood ooze from the wounds her knife had inflicted upon her unfaithful boyfriend, she thought, "Cool, that's the exact same shade as my new nail polish!" Or when she spied the blue tinge to his lips which happened after she had administered the cyanide in his cocktail. It was the grey-blue of the clouds before a violent thunderstorm. She just had to stop listening to that tune from "Chicago"..."He had it coming...he had it coming...!"
Etymology: Pause (reflect, take a moment to consider or think about) & Pos ( abbreviation of positive;involving advantage or good) & Persepective (a way of regarding situations or topics etc; viewpoint; vantage point)
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COMMENTS:
Pandora seems to be quite the extolminatrix! - dochanne, 2009-05-12: 05:22:00
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Distagedy
Created by: beverly
Pronunciation: dist ajedy
Sentence: She is a very distagedy person at the worst times.
Etymology: dist= far, not near agedy= tragedy distracted during a tragedy