Showing posts with label letter u. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letter u. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Unsoulclogged

un-soul-clogged (n-sl-klgd)

adjective
1. Happiness or contentment after a period of upset.
Since I got home, I've been
unsoulclogged and I owe it all to my wonderful family.

Synonyms: blessed, blest, blissful, blithe, can't complain, captivated, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, content, contented, convivial, delighted, ecstatic, elated, exultant, flying high, gay, glad, gleeful, gratified, happy, intoxicated, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, light, lively, looking good, merry, mirthful, on cloud nine, overjoyed, peaceful, peppy, perky, playful, pleasant, pleased, sparkling, sunny, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, up, upbeat, walking on air.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Umbrageous

um-brag-e-ous (ŭm-brāˈjəs)

adjective
1. Easily hurt or offended.
Her umbrageous words were perceived by some as a sign of weakness. It's ok to be weak sometimes. Many of us are weak all the time.

Synonyms: cognizant, conscious, delicate, easily affected, emotionable, emotional, feeling, fine, high-strung, hung up, hypersensitive, impressionable, keen, knowing, nervous, oversensitive, perceiving, perceptive, precarious, precise, psychic, reactive, receptive, responsive, seeing sensatory, sensile, sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sentient, supersensitive, susceptible, tense, ticklish, touchy, touchy feely, tricky, tuned in, understanding, unstable.

2. Affording or producing shade and/or shadowy places.
With her tail between her legs, she retreated into the umbrageous glen.*

Synonyms: adumbral, bosky, chiaroscuro, cloudy, cool, dim, indistinct, leafy, out of the sun, screened, shaded, shadowed, shadowy, shady, sheltered, umbrous, under a cloud, vague.


* This connection between the two definitions is where the expression "to take umbrage" comes from.
** I like this word because it feels like a mixture of "umm..." and "outrageous."

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Usquebaugh

us-que-baugh (ŭsˈkwĭ-bôˌ, -bäˌ)

noun
1. Irish and Scottish whiskey
2. An alcoholic drink that was originally made from barley and produced by the Celts of the British Isles.
Over a noggin of usquebaugh, he would confess every dirty deed he committed in the past three weeks and THAT was ne'er a short list.

Synonyms: drink, whiskey.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Ubiquitous

u-biq-uit-ous (yo͞o-bĭkˈwĭ-təs)

adjective
1. Being or seeming to be everywhere at once.
Descriptions of their travels make the monkey and Johnny Cash two of the most ubiquitous characters of our time.

Synonyms: all-over, everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive, ubiquitary, universal, wall-to-wall.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Unabashed


un-a-bash-ed (n-bsht)
adjective

1. Being too honest about things one might normally be bashed in the head for.
Unabashedly, telling one's boyfriend that you are going to go and make a poop.
You are unabashed, when you tell coworkers, who don't believe in ghosts, that you've just seen a ghost at work, standing behind a customer getting a photo enlarged for the ghost's memorial service.

Note: this is not the same thing as telling the said customer that you just spotted their dead relative. THAT would just be inappropriate.

Synonyms: brazen (this word is best applied to hussies), shameless.