"Proactive" is an adjective that means taking action in advance instead of waiting for problems to happen. It is often used ...

"Aromatic" comes from the Greek word aroma, meaning "spice" or "sweet smell." It was first used to describe fragrant herbs ...

Go to this link from the New York Times and start guessing words. That's a topic we've covered a bunch here. According to the ...

The NFL is famously dubbed as a "game of inches", but it's also a game where just one good, bad, weird, confusing, or ...

Supposedly I have a penchant to get a little long-winded. Well, according to my sweet wife anyway. Last night, while lovingly rehashing a recent tale of mine, she put so ...

Retro, classic, old-fashioned, vintage, outdated, timeless, traditional, quaint -- which adjective you choose to describe the ...

“Surreal” has become a kind of all-purpose adjective, one used to describe everything from an alien abduction to a meal at Arby’s. But in its original, art-movement sense—a marriage of hyper-reality, ...

The way it rolls off the tongue can describe a running stream flowing through the trees as their leaves change color for the autumn season. It evokes a sense of a simpler, more rural life away from ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Sometimes, there just aren’t enough adjectives to describe what Jalen Hurts did on a sunny but chilly Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis. So, Jordan Mailata invented one. “He’s got a ...

People really do not like discussing moisture. A Buzzfeed post called “Why Moist Is The Worst Word Ever” received more than 4 million views; when The New Yorker asked readers to nominate a word to ...

Our discussion of flat adverbs continues today as we, firstly, add more examples. I hope you remember what flat adverbs are: those that do not carry -ly. Rather, they have the same forms as adjectives ...