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DIRECTORY OF OBSCURITY
The Old, Rare & Unusual
OBSCURE | WEIRD | OBSOLETE
Obscurity WordMap
WORD LISTS SPECIAL FEATURES WORDS FROM OTHER CATEGORIES ARTICLES FROM THE REFERENCE CENTER:
WEIRD AND WACKY WORDS
strange and bizarre old and rare words
OBSCURITY OF THE NORM
obscure words for the ordinary & normal
THE GREAT RESURRECTION
bringing the best obsolete words back
LEARN ABOUT OBSCURE WORDS
The Word Reference Corner
A Shiny New Word to Reflect Life as We Live It
NEOLOGISMS FROM RIGHT NOW
CELLFISH: Someone rude who talks on their cellphone and disturbs other people.
CLINOPHILE: a lover of laying around in bed.
ERRORIST: Someone who makes a lot of mistakes
FABULIST: someone who invents elaborate stories.
FLAWSOME: Someone who embraces their flaws and knows they are fabulous anyway.
GHOSTER: Someone who disappears from someone’s life, especially in romantic relationships.
GRIMGIBBER: A Lawyer
HARASSENGER: Someone who is overtly critical of your driving. A backseat driver in the passenger seat.
HEIMGANGER: A person who stays at home; a stay-at-home mother.
ILLEIST: A person who refers to himself in the third person.
IRRIGHTIONAL: Someone who thinks they are always right.
PHILOXENIST: Someone who loves to entertain strangers in their home.
PHILOPOLEMICAL: Someone who loves to fight.
PODSNAPPER: Someone who is complacent and refuses to accept facts.
POGONOPHILE: Someone who loves beards.
PROCRASTURBATER: Someone who masturbates instead of taking care of pressing matters.
PSILOSOPHER: A person with a petty or shallow philosophy.
PROFITER: Someone who makes the most of a situation.
RASTAQUOUERE: A social climber who tries too hard to be in fashion.
SAPIOSEXUAL: Someone who is attracted to intelligence.
SINGLETASKER: Someone who excels at doing just one thing at a time. Opposite of multitasker.
SOMNAMBULIST: Someone who sleepwalks.
SORTABLE: Someone you can take anywhere without fear of being embarrassed
SOULSEXUAL: Someone who is attracted to another’s soul.
SQUINTIFEGO: A person who squints a lot.
STALKO: A poor person who pretends to be rich.
TEXTROVERT: Someone who prefers to text rather than talk on the phone.
THELEMITE: Someone who does as she pleases.
TIDSOPTIMIST: Someone who is always late because they think they have more time than they actually do.
UNDERTHINKER: opposite of overthinker. Someone who doesn’t think something through.
UNKEYBOARDINATED: Someone who makes a lot of typing mistakes.
WINEBIBBER: A person who habitually drinks a lot of alcohol.
VESPINE: A woman who doesn’t meddle in anyone’s business and hates it when anyone meddles in hers.
CLINOPHILE: a lover of laying around in bed.
- COIMETROPHILE: Someone who loves cemeteries.
- PISTORIOPHILE: Someone who loves baked goods.
- STIGMATOPHILE: Someone who loves tattoos and piercings.
See More Phile Words.
ERRORIST: Someone who makes a lot of mistakes
FABULIST: someone who invents elaborate stories.
FLAWSOME: Someone who embraces their flaws and knows they are fabulous anyway.
GHOSTER: Someone who disappears from someone’s life, especially in romantic relationships.
GRIMGIBBER: A Lawyer
HARASSENGER: Someone who is overtly critical of your driving. A backseat driver in the passenger seat.
HEIMGANGER: A person who stays at home; a stay-at-home mother.
ILLEIST: A person who refers to himself in the third person.
IRRIGHTIONAL: Someone who thinks they are always right.
PHILOXENIST: Someone who loves to entertain strangers in their home.
PHILOPOLEMICAL: Someone who loves to fight.
PODSNAPPER: Someone who is complacent and refuses to accept facts.
POGONOPHILE: Someone who loves beards.
PROCRASTURBATER: Someone who masturbates instead of taking care of pressing matters.
PSILOSOPHER: A person with a petty or shallow philosophy.
PROFITER: Someone who makes the most of a situation.
RASTAQUOUERE: A social climber who tries too hard to be in fashion.
SAPIOSEXUAL: Someone who is attracted to intelligence.
SINGLETASKER: Someone who excels at doing just one thing at a time. Opposite of multitasker.
SOMNAMBULIST: Someone who sleepwalks.
SORTABLE: Someone you can take anywhere without fear of being embarrassed
SOULSEXUAL: Someone who is attracted to another’s soul.
SQUINTIFEGO: A person who squints a lot.
STALKO: A poor person who pretends to be rich.
TEXTROVERT: Someone who prefers to text rather than talk on the phone.
THELEMITE: Someone who does as she pleases.
TIDSOPTIMIST: Someone who is always late because they think they have more time than they actually do.
UNDERTHINKER: opposite of overthinker. Someone who doesn’t think something through.
UNKEYBOARDINATED: Someone who makes a lot of typing mistakes.
WINEBIBBER: A person who habitually drinks a lot of alcohol.
VESPINE: A woman who doesn’t meddle in anyone’s business and hates it when anyone meddles in hers.
The Old, Rare & Unusual
OBSCURE | WEIRD | OBSOLETE
Obscurity WordMap
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