Ginormous

Ginormous
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Another word for massive or huge is ginormous, which is prolly a ginormous surprise to most of us. This adjective has been around since 1942. Merriam-Webster uses it in the sentence, “had a ginormous house with a swimming pool and a pool table.”

Try these 11 adjectives everyone should use more often.

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Humongous

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Similar to ginormous, according to Merriam-Webster, humongous is also a real, dictionary-approved word. Which, again, is another word pertaining to anything extremely large.

Nother

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Yes, Merriam-Webster shocks us once again with a whole nother commonly-misperceived-as-wrong word. Also spelled as ‘nother and used as another word for “other,” this word has surprisingly been used since the 14th century.

These 17 “modern” words are much older than you thought.

Conversate

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Believe it or not, conversate is an actual word – and it’s been around for over 200 years. (Same with conversating and conversated. We know, this one will take some time to get used to.) There’s even an entire Merriam-Webster page devoted to the verb. As in, “We conversated about the weekend plans” or “We conversated about how conversate is actually a word.”

Learn how to decode 27 common Gen Z slang words.

Funner

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If a tough day can get tougher, and weird house guests can get weirder, why can’t a fun drink get funner after they’re gone? Actually, it can. Merriam-Webster states that funner and funnest are “sometimes” permissible. Although fun has long been accepted as a noun, it is considered informal when used as an adjective, and therefore, some people claim, it shouldn’t be inflected like other adjectives, but those people are no fun.

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