What’s the most obscure word you know

#1

Crepuscular - resembling or relating to twilight
Crapulent - relating to drunkenness

#2

You wouldn’t have heard of it

#3

floccinaucinihilipilification

#4

Probably one of those Joanna Newsom ones

#5

Crapulent sounds like a made up work from the Simpsons. like the opposite of cromulent.

#6

Crepuscular and Crapulent

#7

obscure hahahahahahhaaa

#8

Oxford Dictionary Online added a fuckload (40,000) of obscure and archaic words 3 years ago, so probably any of those.

My favourite is this one:

My least favourite is TABLENESS. Fuck off.

#9

Defenestration

#10

Obscure

#madeuthink

#11

jentacular

#12

LITOTES

#13

Steviebiscuits

#14

Stentorian

I once saw it used in A Confederacy of Dunces (which, incidentally, is a pretty good book for its use of underused words) but I don’t think I’ve seen it written anywhere else.

#15

i read a book by david foster wallace once

#16

Good word. Apparently there’s an Indian heavy metal band called Stentorian;

#17

Good word, crap band

#18

great band as well.

#19

Pubiscus

#20

Scolex