sesquipedalian

IPA: seɪskwipidˈeɪɫiʌn

noun

  • A long word.
  • A person who uses long words.

adjective

  • (of a word or words) Long; polysyllabic.
  • Pertaining to or given to the use of overly long words.
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Examples of "sesquipedalian" in Sentences

  • That makes one more sesquipedalian on the internet.
  • By the way, sesquipedalian means to use a larger vocabulary.
  • He is a sesquipedalian, but has the intellectual depth of a chipmunk.
  • This is an encyclopedia, not an exercise for obscurantist sesquipedalianism.
  • Or, perhaps it is a sign that I am sesquipedalian at best and pendantic at worst.
  • "Clarence Thomas, please spell the word sesquipedalian and then use it in a form of a question."
  • Professor Edgworth of All Souls, according to Robert Graves, tended towards this kind of sesquipedalian speech.
  • I prefer to characterize myself as a sesquipedalian, but I fear that such a characterization is a sham crafted by a hubristic pendant.
  • Let his obituary read, "Douglas Martin, a newspaperman who once got the word" sesquipedalian "onto the front page of the New York Times ...."
  • From the time the moderator gives the word, let's say it's "sesquipedalian," until your progeny very slowly spells it correctly, doesn't it seem a lifetime?
  • The first hypothesis to be explored was proposed by no less influential a political observer than columnist George Will, the bow-tied, sesquipedalian voice of American conservatism.

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