Word of the Day - let's add 100 words to our vocabulary

[MariaWaria]

This thread follows on from my recent thread on AIBU saying that I wanted to add 100 words to my vocabulary. The response was incredible; so much encouragement given, and ideas shared.
And AdaColeman suggested I start a Word of the Day thread, so here we are.

The way this will work is that I will post the Word of the Day (each day ) and state its meaning as I understand it which will no doubt have been gleaned from Google, books, wherever.

The aim is not to teach or preach or offer words that ordinary folk, like me, are not likely to use in general conversation. They will be words that we may already have heard of but have not felt assured enough to use in conversation.

Perhaps we can aim to use the Word of the Day three times in our conversation in the next 24 hours and report on how that went.

Let’s see how this thread develops. My aim is to continue for 100 days by which time I (and hopefully you too) will have an extra 100 words in your vocabulary.

The first Word of the Day is INIMITABLE meaning incapable of being copied, in a class of its own.

I used "garment" in a thread a while ago and had several people saying it wasn't a word they used, or that it should be used more often. We use it slightly light-heartedly here as in "Does anyone have any dark garments for a wash load?" or "Could you put those garments away please."

Words seem to fall from fashion MiddlingMum. Garment has a good old fashioned homely/department store feel about it.

Sounds good.

I'm struggling to get say inimitable. I'm like a child trying to say hospital!

Nice word I think it's often used in the context of describing a person's style I.e. and now Stephen Fry describes, in his own inimitable fashion, the mating habits of lesser-spotted giant green bullfrogs.

Trying to think of other places/times it's used but drawing a bit of a blank, shamefully!!

I like this idea for a thread

Happy New Year everyone

In an effort to use the Word of the Day to get it to stick in my head

"What an inimitable firework display London produced to celebrate the New Year".

Great thread OP! Is it meant to be pronounced with the stress on the ‘im’ or ‘it’ part? This is always my problem with using words I’ve read, I’m always scared to say it wrong.

In-IM-it-a-ble

I struggled with saying it too Stripy

Good example LaContessa. Inimitable style and inimitable fashion trip off the tongue rather better than my inimitable firework display

mine is oxymoron

Herbs mispronouncing a word or saying it in the wrong the context has stopped me from broadening my vocabulary, but a new era has dawned and I'm going to have a go, and if I make a few mistakes, so what?

I find the little speaker thingy useful. It enables me to listen to the word.
www.google.co.uk/search?q=inimitable&rlz=1C1AVUC_enGB777&oq=inimitable&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4862j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I always think of inimitable as very Jeeves and Wooster if you know what I mean.

I always tell my Y6 children - in my own inimitable style - that we never mock anyone for mispronouncing a word as it probably means they learned it from reading, Maria.

Hi Maria. My favourite word is sesquipedalian. Knowing lots of words.

May I add one of my favourite words learnt through work... Bifurcation, meaning to split or fork, for example a river as it splits around an island.

Someone famous and/or worthy once said something along the lines of don’t judge people for mispronouncing words - it’s means they’ve learned them by reading and that’s no bad thing.

Oh. It was PicInAttic, apparently. 😂

Great idea.

I actually used inimitable last night to describe my mother 😄

Oh so we are going on and on and on re each word?

Well said PicInAttic and ftw

Oh so we are going on and on and on re each word?
lynmilne65 the intention is that I will state what the Word of the Day is (will probably do this during the evening) and then for the next 24 hours folk can comment on it, how they used it etc.

I appreciate that those of you who are already very familiar with these words, and perhaps have larger vocabularies than me, might find this rather dull. However for me this is a way to really get these words into my consciousness and help me to have the confidence to use them.

Well done Maria! You've taken up this challenge in your own inimitable way.

AdaColeman great to see you here

My dd is tidying in her own inimitable style, now I need

The word inimitable has put a rhyme into my head and it's been going round all day; it's the final few lines of ' The naming of cats' by TS Eliot:

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

It's the effanineffable bit that inimitable reminded me of

I think this is a BRILLIANT thread and will try to use the words in my own inimitable way during conversation (did you see what I did there, didya?? ) - and I think you are right OP, that using the word will help it stick in the grey matter!

Thank you!!!

Great poem LaContessa

That's just how I'm hoping this thread will work Rainy