What are your favorite, least favorite, and underutilized words?

[Corty]

Calm down bro

Read it now. Sorry, I blame auto correlation.

 

[JordanIda]

favorite: of
least favorite: was

 

[Tabula_Rasa]

Favorite: Banana
Least favorite: Bro

The OG banana bros

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

Favorite: Verbose
Least Favorite: though
Underutilized: Awesome (in it's true meaning)
Over utilized: but, or Awesome (in how we utilize it these days)

I am sorry, your grandma's secret recipes might be good, but they are not awesome.

The crest of the waves towered over the ship's bridge, shaking the beleaguered vessel violently as it tried to weather the awesome power of the storm.

 

[georgelee5786]

Overused is that.

 

[Tabula_Rasa]

The word "caboose", I can fit it in all the categories.

Also
The word "overrated" is over utilized

 

[Sylver]

I'm dyslexic.

Every word becomes my least favroite word

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I'm dyslexic.

Every word becomes my least favroite word

OpenDyslexic https://share.google/SpRLtecqWShXC4PGI
Have fun with this font. It helped my little brother who has dyslexia.

 

[expentio]

"Perhaps". I know, not an uncommon word, but I barely ever use it in my stories, and feel like I'm missing out.

 

[Sylver]

OpenDyslexic https://share.google/SpRLtecqWShXC4PGI
Have fun with this font. It helped my little brother who has dyslexia.

Ooo much appreciated! I have some tools and programs that help me with my dyslexia, but I'll give this a look

 

[TinaMigarlo]

certain words to me, invoke a sort of Sherlock Holmes aura.
"Mayhap", is one of them.
Sounds all olde english and stuff.
stuffy and pretentious as hell.
"Perhaps" is like a lite version of that, to me, aura wise.

"Perhaps what's needed. A diversion. Eh, Watson?"
"Mayhap, Holmes. Mayhap."
"Hmm. Indubitably."
The Swiss watch that served as his intellectual gears clicking and whirring passed over his eyes as he tabulated and calculated for a few moments.
"The game is, once again my dear Watson... well afoot."
"Right said, old chap. Shall we, then."
Holmes gestured with his unlit pipe.
"We shall."

 

[NotaNuffian]

I don't have a favorite word, but I do have an upcoming least favorite after "and", "as though", "but" and other connecting words.

The new word is "meanwhile".

 

[LiteraryWho]

Fav: Heretofore
Most hated: Just
Underused: Heretofore
Overused: Just

Just is the bane of my existence. You might say I've just about had it up to here with it. I just can't take any more of it. If I could just never use it again, that would be just great. Please, just put me out of my misery here.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

My least favorite now is "amplitude" because I must have heard it about 100 times today watching the Winter Olympics freestyle skiing finals.
I'm serious, if someone had suggested you take a drink every time the sportscaster said "amplitude", they would be wheeling your sodden, stinking corpse out the door. I wish I was kidding. This idiot couldn't USE another word?!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I don't have a favorite word, but I do have an upcoming least favorite after "and", "as though", "but" and other connecting words.

The new word is "meanwhile".

...at that very moment...

 

[CanOfTuna]

Aint a writer without beef with words

Favorite: stupid
Least Favorite: like a lie
Underutilized: incessant
Over utilized: like (comparison)

 

[JayMark]

Favorite: Phosphorescent (Because I got criticised for using it.)
Least Favorite: Actually, Very.
Underutilized: Smimitar
Over utilized: is, the, a, an

Favorite: Support
Least Favorite: Abandonement
Underutilized: Payment, Responsibility,
Over utilized: Denial, Unacceptable, Craziness

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Aint a writer without beef with words

Favorite: stupid
Least Favorite: like a lie
Underutilized: incessant
Over utilized: like (comparison)

A writer always has beef with words.

 

[JHarp]

I want to know your favorite word, least favorite word, the word you think is most underutilized, and which words you think are over utilized? Mostly for a personal interest.

As a cold read, acting not mentalism for the question.

My favourite word is Idiolect, which is idio- for 'own' and -lect such as dialect.
Basically, an individuals unique use of language and speech.

Which is funny (to me) because it means idiolect is in my idiolect.

As for less meta favourites, I would say I'm quite partial to a few words for various reasons which also happen to be underused from what I can tell: sardonic, imposition, placate, capstone, eclectic, microscopically, impetus, append.

Meanwhile I can't think of a word I would consider my least favourite as I feel most words are contextual for how problematic they can be in that moment.

Basically any connective could be argued as 'over-utilized' but that is the design of most language, if you learn the 100 most common words in a language, you will already understand a large part of normal conversation, after that it's about learning the keywords and nouns that relate to the things you are talking about, if anything that makes language more interesting because it shows what the language values for communication.

If I had to pick overused words I can only think of the ones I keep overusing: particularly, meanwhile, supposed(ly), indeed, technically, anyway, potentially, whenever, basically.

'For the most part' I hedge a lot of my more 'casual' chatting and that results in a lot of neutral/deflective terms being something I overuse, not that I plan to change that in the interim.

And for those who are curious, I have this website on hand from back in my earlier studies of etymology detailing old words across english dictionaries, https://phrontistery.info/

 

[TinaMigarlo]

My least favorite now is "amplitude" because I must have heard it about 100 times today watching the Winter Olympics freestyle skiing finals.
I'm serious, if someone had suggested you take a drink every time the sportscaster said "amplitude", they would be wheeling your sodden, stinking corpse out the door. I wish I was kidding. This idiot couldn't USE another word?!

There's a supposed professional. They learned a new vocabulary word and they have to drop it constantly. To me, that's a sign they're trying too hard. The extensive vocabulary doesn't come as easily as it should to avoid being tagged as a pseud. Assimilation of terminology has to be natural or it shows like too much cologne being used to cover up desperation. Which as we all know, has a stink all its own. Likely some nepo love child to some middling producer that has to have their ego massaged to keep daddy and the sponsors quiet. I'm sure mommy's dump stat was INT but they were lucky to have daddy's genes in their mix.

A story as old as time itself, really.
You just know there's interns around that could smoke that pseud, that will never get their chance.
Never change, human nature. never change.