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Lugubrious

I have loved the word lugubrious ever since I first heard it in the Disney movie Hercules. (“Coming, your lugubriousness”).

I soon came across it in literature, and to this day to see it in print gives me a feeling of deep pleasure and amusement. Lugubrious…”Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woeful; [...]

Hypaethral

I stumbled across this word in a book by Mircea Eliade that I was reading at least 30 years ago. I loved the sound and look of it, but hadn’t the vaguest idea what it meant, even after wrestling with the context which often yields a sense of a word strange to me. I [...]