Is metaphostic a word, and what does it mean?
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It's a made up word, and is explained (not defined) as follows, \n\nThe word “Metaphostic” is a Greek amalgam of two root words one being Meta which means above, transformational as in metamorphosis, and phostic which is the word for the nature of light. Metaphostic is transformational light.
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antidisestablishmentarianism\n\nPart of Speech:  noun\n\nDefinition:  originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, now opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country\n\n------------\n\n\nMain Entry:  floccinaucinihilipilification\n\nPart of Speech:  noun\n\nDefinition:  an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial\nEtymology:  the parts of the word each mean `at nothing' or `with a small price'\n\n-------\n\nHere it is -- the long-awaited, much-promised list of the ten longest words in the English language. I am far from a linguist, so my only comments on these words will be from what I know personally. I know that this list excludes place names, chemical compounds, scientific names, proper names (some people actually change and lengthen their name for the sake of notoriety) and other oddities, but include a couple of quasi-medical terms. I also know that this list is only my list of words that I collected from various sites, and there will be some differences from other lists depending on how the creators of those other lists have restricted their sources. This is by no means a definitive list. It is, however, my best interpretation of the many similar but different lists that can be found by snooping around on the Internet. Please have fun with it. The shorter of the words (numbers 5 through 10) can be found in most good dictionaries.\n\n10. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)\n\n9. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (30 letters)\n\n8. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters)\n\n7. Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (34 letters -- And I always thought that "antidisestablishmentarianism" was the longest.)\n\n6. Praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters)\n\n5. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters -- This is the longest "natural" word found in Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary.)\n\n4. Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagninonervomedullary (52 letters -- Coined by Thomas Love Peacock in his story from 1816 called "Headlong Hall".)\n\n3. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters -- Invented by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters at Bath, England.)\n\n2. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilph-ioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralek-tryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon (182 letters -- English transliteration of a 170-letter Greek word that appears in the Greek playwrite Aristophanes' comedy "The Ecclesiazusae".)\n\n1. Orniscopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroau-strohieroanthropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotan-opegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxino-coscinodactyliogeolithopessopsephocatoptrotephraoneirochiroo-nychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenosc-apulinaniac (311 letters [I hope!] and arbitrarily hyphenated at approximately 60 letters [as with word 2] -- Found in Ripley's "The Omnibus Believe It Or Not", published in 1931, this word was used by medieval scribes to refer to "a deluded human who practices divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts or other manifestations related to the following animate or inanimate objects and appearances: birds, oracles, Bible, ghosts, crystal gazing, shadows, air appearances, birth stars, meteors, winds, sacrificial appearances, entrails of humans and fishes, fire, red-hot irons, altar smoke, mice, barley, salt, lead, dice, arrows, hatchet balance, sieve, ring suspension, random dots, precious stones, pebbles, pebble heaps, mirrors, ash writing, dreams, palmistry, nail rays, finger rings, numbers, book passages, name letterings, laughing manners, ventriloquism, circle walking, wax, susceptibility to hidden springs, wine and shoulder blades." No wonder it was shortened to only 311 le
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Check out the Yahoo! Dictionary at:\n\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/flippant\n\n ADJECTIVE:\n\n   1. Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert.\n   2. Archaic Talkative; voluble.
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One thing to keep in mind is that the words that are okay today are the "non-PC" words of tomorrow. It's funny how terms come in and go out of vogue. \n\n(For example, people used to use the word, "dwarf" for someone suffering "dwarfism" -- now the term is "little person." Eventually people will tire of that, the term will be decried as bad, and another one will be chosen.)\n\nSome people understand this and see terms like "retarded" as just words, and aren't offended by its general usage. Other people are more sensitive and will become heavily offended. It's strange how different the sorts of reaction can be -- sometimes VERY strong in either direction, all over the same word. \n\nI usually just try to remain aware of why I use certain words, and which situations might demand a higher level of sensitivity even if the word doesn't bother me particularly.
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The word Phsyco is a gramaticly incorrect abreiviation of the word psychopath (crazy person).\ni apologise on the behalf of the person who wrote this it should be spelt P-S-Y-C-H-O psycho.\nIn conclution the person who wrote his is suffering from a typo.
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it is an adjective. \n\nmore specifically, a great googly woogly adjective.\n\ntell frank zappa i said hello.
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Acrostic:  a poem in which special letters spell another word. Panthers growl,\nOrioles sing, \nEagles soar, \nMonkeys swing. \nSee?  \nMost often, \nthe special letters  \ncome at the beginning of each line. \nBut  \nthey may be placed  \nelsewhere, too.
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Yes, kohoutek is Czech word. \nIt can mean:\n1. cockerel\n2. cock (of a rifle); withers (on the back); \n3. quiff, tuft of hair, elf's lock  \n4. ragged robin (botanical term)\n5. cock (on the piping), (discharge) tap, AmE faucet, spigot
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Oxymoron\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary defines oxymoron this way:\nA rhetorical figure by which contradictory or incongruous terms\nare conjoined so as to give point to the statement or expression;\nan expression in its superficial or literal meaning self-\ncontradictory or absurd, but involving a point.\n\nAnother of my favorite reference works, The Oxford Companion to the English Language, has a slightly more readable entry:\n\n    A term in rhetoric for bringing opposites together in a compact\n    paradoxical word or phrase: bittersweet; be cruel to be kind; a\n    cheerful pessimist. The term is often used for social comment,\n    both humorously or cynically (such as calling military\n    intelligence a contradiction in terms).\n\nOxymoron has an interesting etymology. In ancient Greece oxus meant "sharp; pointed" and moros meant "dull; stupid; foolish." So the word oxymoron is itself an oxymoron, literally meaning something like "a sharp dullness" or "pointed foolishness." Technically, the correct plural form of the word is oxymora, but so many people say oxymorons that it is now generally regarded as an acceptable usage. I use both forms of the words, depending on the audience.\n\nThe word first made its appearance in the English language in 1640, when an English cleric named Brother Reynolds made reference to "a bold and true oxymoron of Seneca." For many centuries, it was an obscure word, familiar only to classical scholars and students of rhetoric. When I graduated from high school in 1960, for example, I didn't have a clue about what it meant. Several months later, during my freshman year at the University of North Dakota, I recall an English professor introducing the word in her class. For almost all of us, it was the first time we had heard the word. We delighted in the examples she cited: pretty ugly, old news, and serious fun.\n\nDuring the 1960s and 70s, the word began to be used with increasing frequency, especially in college environments, but it was still an uncommon word. Then, in 1986, Warren S. Blumenfeld published a small book titled Jumbo Shrimp and Other Almost Perfect Oxymorons. Blumenfeld, a professor at Georgia State University, defined oxymorons as "contradictory expressions that make absolute sense." Even though the book was written in an overly-cutesy style, it made a quite a splash. Articles about oxymorons began appearing in newspapers all over the country and Blumenfeld was a frequent guest on radio talk shows. As much as anybody, this otherwise little-known Georgia professor helped make oxymoron the household word it is today. In 1989, he published a sequel titled, Pretty Ugly: More Oxymorons and Other Illogical Expressions That Make Absolute Sense. In that book he described the object of his interest this way:\nAn oxymoron is two concepts (usually two words)\nthat do not go together but are used together.\nIt is the bringing together of contradictory expressions.\n\nThe New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics adds a fascinating dimension to our understanding of oxymoron when it links it to another important literary and rhetorical device: paradox:\nA figure of speech which yokes together\ntwo seemingly contradictory elements.\nOxymoron is thus a form of condensed paradox.\n\nA condensed paradox? How interesting that the terms oxymoron and paradox, not normally mentioned in the same breath, are actually quite closely related. Let's take a closer look at it.\n\nParadox\n\nParadox is a concept with a long and rich history in literary and intellectual circles. And, while almost all literate people are familiar with the word, it is also true that most of them have trouble defining what it means. Before reading on, give it a shot. Try to describe the meaning of paradox in a few simple words. Ask a couple of friends or family members to try it as well. Don't be surprised if some pretty intelligent people stumble ov
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This may be a little off in terms of funny but it is funny/odd. We all have heard the "f" word before & know that the term "f... you" is commonly used as a deragatory term, right? Do you, however, know what it means or where it comes from?\n\nWell, in the past, when people would go to confession, the phrase, "For Unsanctioned Carnal Knowledge" was written into the book where you would list your sins. That phrase means for knowledge of another outside the bonds of marriage, of course. Over time, the phrase was shortened to the word that some people hurl at each other in nasty ways today. Just think, you are mad at someone & cuss at them when, in reality, you are wishing them a VERY good time!\n\nThought you all might find it comical...I know WAY too many odd tidbits of information!
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There is an ancient buy useful tool, a "dictionary" It really works..try it. Look up "gratuitous" and it will tell you what it means, really? Then remember that "non" means, "NOT"
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Idiotic , Ionic , Platonic , Celtic ,Italic, Lyric, Stearic ,Epic, Rustic,Attic, Automatic, Arctic ,Ideologic,Economic,Sulfuric\n\nHope that helps
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Of course it's a great word.  I think that any word with the sound "oo" in it is a funny word.  Try it.  Doofus.  Goofy.  Poo.  Need any more proof?  Thirty two!!
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Its a hyphenated word:open-minded
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It means someone who is self-righteous and smug.\n\nThe phrase originates from the nursery tale "The History of Goody Two-Shoes"
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I'm sorry but half of you don't seem to grasp what an oxymoron is.i.e a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory terms e.g cruel kindness, loud silence,small giant.\npretty ugly, .jumbo shrimp,wooden iron,cold fire."faith unfaithful" "humbly bold" "falsely true". Not a paradox!\nThanx for the points Grimble x
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Are you sure that you have the spelling right?  I have searched both Collins and Oxford online dictionaries and it is not on either, which leads me to believe that it isn't an accepted word.\n\nPerhaps if you provide the context and where the word comes from (i.e. is it a text book, a novel, someone elses writing?) people would find it easier to answer your question.