Ungreat
I noticed that at Toastmaster meetings, we tend to use the word “Great” a lot. We use it to mean “very good” as in “You did a great job as evaluator tonight” So, the next time I was Grammarian of the evening, I exacted a one penny penalty for use of “great” and provided a list of alternatives. The following words have different shades of meaning so look them up in a dictionary before you use them. Send me any more that you can think of.
Able
Adept
Awesome
Capital
Consummate
Dynamite
Excellent
Expert
First-rate
Lovely
Marvelous
Masterly
Outstanding
Proficient
Skillful
Terrific
Transcendent
Tremendous
Wonderful
posted by M.A.P. @ 2:45 PM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Penultimate, kemal, sick.
Thank you for the contribution.
This is a good opportunity to point out that "penultimate" means next to last. A penult is the next to last syllable in a word.
I am not familiar with kemal. does anyone have information regarding this?
As for "sick". I am aware that young people now use this word to mean "crazy","cool", "insane" but to most adults, it still means "ill" and I think I'll stick to that meaning.
That reminds me to mention an interesting online dictionary called Urban Dictionary. It specializes in new words used by cool young people.
http://www.urbandictionary.com
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