Calling All Sesquipedalians! 150+ Big Words To Enhance Your Vocabulary

Language is a beautiful thing. Just think about it — all around the world, people are using different languages to speak and communicate with each other. Language is so vast that we can even communicate thoughts and feelings solely by using our bodies. Expanding on your vocabulary is always a great thing, especially if you’re looking for new ways to get your point across. Big meaningful words shouldn’t be intimidating. Instead, these words should be embraced and used way more often. You’re not an egghead if you use different words to express yourself! Rather, you call that a sesquipedalian (aka lover of long words).

Writers love learning unfamiliar words, but so do kids. That means that language can be a blast and an excellent way to bond with your family. Your family can try to use fancy words every day as a challenge. Making those words positive is even better. Right now, our world needs every little bit of cheer it can get, right? So, here are some fun big words for good, words for beautiful, and — of course — the fanciest of words to express love.

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Big Words For Beautiful

Resplendent — shining brilliantly

Statuesque — majestic dignity, grace, or beauty

Pulchritudinous — physically beautiful

Sublime — supreme or outstanding

Beauteous — beautiful

Ravishing — enchanting; entrancing

Splendiferous — extraordinarily or showily impressive

Ravishing — unusually attractive, pleasing, or striking

Aesthetical — concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste

Bewitching — powerfully or seductively attractive or charming

Exquisite — pleasing through beauty, physical fitness, or perfection

Captivating — charmingly or irresistibly appealing

Comely — having a pleasing appearance

Fetching — attractive, appealing

Alluring — having a strong, attractive, or enticing quality

Junoesque — imposingly tall and shapely

Telegenic — very photogenic

Big Words For Smart

Resourceful — able to deal skillfully with new situations

Prompt — quick or alert

Sagacious — having or showing keen mental discernment or judgment; shrewd

Canny — astute and skilled

Astute — very clever and sometimes cunning

Intelligent — having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of mental capacity

Insightful — exhibiting or characterized by insight

Perceptive — capable of exhibiting keen insight or sympathetic understanding

Perspicacious — of acute mental vision or discernment

Discerning — showing insight and understanding

Knowledgeable — having or showing knowledge or intelligence

Well-informed — having extensive knowledge, especially of current topics and events

Enlightened — freed from ignorance and misinformation

Comprehending — grasping the nature, significance, or meaning of something

Ingenious — having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving

Big Words For Good

Exceptional — unusually excellent; being out of the ordinary

Positive — fully assured; having or showing a mind free of doubt

Adept — very skilled; proficient

Stupendous — astounding and marvelous

Delightful — highly pleasing

Favorable — winning approval; marked by impressive success

Magnificent — great in deed, or exalted in place; impressive to the mind or spirit

Quintessential — perfectly typical or representative of a particular kind of person or thing

Marvelous — causing wonder; of the highest kind or quality

Tremendous — notable by reason of extreme size, power, greatness, or excellence; being such may excite trembling or arouse dread, awe, or terror

Commonsensical — sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or the facts

Righteous — genuine, excellent

Virtuous — having or exhibiting virtue; morally excellent

Exemplary — deserving imitation because of excellence

Immaculate — having or containing no flaw or error

Big Words For Amazing

Prodigious — wonderful or marvelous

Astonishing — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing

Astounding — capable of overwhelming with amazement

Phenomenal — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional

Breathtaking — exciting, thrilling; very great, astonishing

Extraordinary — going beyond what is regular or customary; exceptional to a very marked extent

Sensational — exceedingly or unexpectedly excellent or great

Awe-inspiring — that arouses awe

Incomparable — eminent beyond comparison

Indescribable — surpassing description

Ineffable — incapable of being expressed in words

Transcendent — extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience; being beyond comprehension

Wondrous — that is to be marveled at

Majestic — having or exhibiting majesty

Flabbergasting — overwhelming with shock, surprise, or wonder

Big Words About Love

Devotion — earnest attachment to a cause, person, etc

Adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile compliments and flattery

Allegiance — loyalty or devotion to a person, group, cause, or the like

Amorousness — the act of being in love

Amativeness — relating to or indicative of love

Enamored — affected by strong feelings of love, admiration, or fascination

Enchantment — the act or art of enchanting

Reverence — honor or respect felt or shown

Infatuated — filled with or marked by a foolish or extravagant love or admiration

Affection — a feeling of liking and caring for someone or something; tender attachment

Tenderness — gentleness and affection

Besottedness — related to being blindly or utterly infatuated

Canonize — to treat as illustrious, preeminent, or sacred

Canoodle — to engage in amorous embracing, caressing, and passionate kissing

Predilection — an established preference for something

Fondness — affection for someone or something

Endearment — a phrase that expresses love

Big Words For Anger

Incensed — very angry; enraged

Exasperated — intensely irritated and frustrated

Irascible — having or showing a tendency to be easily angered

Choleric — bad-tempered or irritable

Indignant — feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment

Incandescent — full of strong emotion; passionate

Tempestuous — strong and turbulent or conflicting emotions

Belligerent — hostile and aggressive

Rancorous — bitterness or resentment

Querulous — complaining in a petulant or whining manner

Pugnacious — eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight

Disgruntled — angry or dissatisfied

Acrimonious — angry and bitter

Incendiary — a person who stirs up conflict

Malicious — having or showing a desire to hurt someone

Big Words That Express Excitement

Ebullient — cheerful and full of energy

Exuberant — effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant

Euphoric — intense excitement and happiness

Rapturous — feeling or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm

Jubilant — feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph

Pulsating — exciting or stimulating

Exhilarating — making one feel very happy, animated, or elated; thrilling

Titillating — arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious

Exulting — feeling or showing elation or jubilation

Rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic

Other Big Words To Use

Elucidate — to explain or make something clear

Selcouth — unusual, strange

Halcyon — characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity

Orphic — mystic, oracular; fascinating, entrancing

Malaise — physical discomfort or a general feeling of being under the weather

Scintillating — something fascinating or brilliantly clever

Ebullience — the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

Quiddity — whatever makes something the type that it is; the essence

Aeonian — lasting for an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time

Coruscate — to reflect or give off light in bright beams or flashes; sparkle

Atelophobia — the fear of not doing something right or not being good enough

Cimmerian — very dark or gloomy

Adamancy — the quality or state of being adamant; obstinacy

Evenfall — the beginning of evening, dusk

Orgulous — proud

Parsimonious — frugal

Tantalizing — tormenting or teasing with the sight or promise of something unobtainable; exciting one’s senses or desires

Teasing — in a sexual sense, it means to be sexually arousing

Pulchritudinous — attractive or beautiful

Bellwether — a leader, trendsetter, or boss

Accoutrements — accessories

Magnanimous — courageous, noble, unselfish, or extremely generous

Unencumbered — free or unburdened with responsibilities

Acumen — quickness to judge

Unparagoned — having no equal; matchless, incomparable

Osculator — someone who kisses

Anomalistic — deviation or departure from the norm or rules; phenomenal, exceptional

Usufruct — the right to use and enjoy the profits and advantages of something belonging to another

Luminescent — something that displays light that is not caused by heat

Auspicious — favorable, flourishing

Winebibber — a person who drinks too much wine

Excogitate — thinking of something carefully or thoroughly

Gasconading — to brag or gloat

Idiosyncratic — traits that belong to a person’s character

Nidificate — to nest

Cacophony — a loud, obnoxious blend of sounds

Ennui — feeling simultaneously bored and annoyed

Aquiver — feeling overcome with emotion

Umbrage — displeasure, resentment, or anger

Glib — suave or smooth-talking

Ubiquitous — universal or everywhere

Nefarious — wicked or criminal

Capricious — whimsical, fickle, or careless

Boondoggle — work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of value

Sycophant — a person who flatters someone important in order to take advantage of them

Mellifluous — sweet or musical, pleasant to hear

Brogue — a strong outdoor shoe, usually made of leather

Intelligentsia — intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite

Consanguineous — of the same blood or origin; someone who descends from the same ancestor

Grandiloquent — a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality, especially in language

Psychotomimetic — relating to, involving, or inducing psychotic alteration of behavior and personality

Perfidiousness — a betrayal of trust

Preposterous — contrary to nature, reason, or common sense

Anagnorisis — the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character’s true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation

Circumlocution — the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea