Posted on 06/30/2017 6:17:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.
ennui
[ahn-wee, ahn-wee; French ahn-nwee]
noun:
1. a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
Example: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
Word Origin:
Mid 18th century: French, from Latin mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me.’ Compare with annoy.
Synonyms for ennui noun boredom
apathy languor melancholy sadness tedium weariness blahs blues dejection depression dissatisfaction doldrums dumps fatigue lassitude listlessness satiety spiritlessness surfeit yawn ho hums lack of interest languidness
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day........
Class is in session!.......No talking during Study Hall!..................
Ennui is a strange word for me. I knew it when I read it, but I didn't know how to say it. I knew it when I heard it. But I had no idea those two words were the same word.
So did mine!..............A+++!...................
CNN is a major contributor to the national ennui, ennui refuse to watch it at my house.
Moi Aussi!
Au Revoir to my ennui!
With eyes glazed over and dewy
My mind thinking this is screwy
Can’t take it no more
This channels a bore
Who tuned the TV to CNNui
“I didn’t know how to say it”
I knew how to say it when I was just a tot on my rocking horse; I just didn’t know how to feel it. On! Wee!
Ennui don’t either!..................Pun Extra Credit!..............A++++!................
Too much CNN will give you am anyurism..............A+++!...........
.........Excellent A+++!...............
Frank Sinatra “...fighting vainly that old ennui, and I turn and suddenly see your fabulous face.”
I get a kick out of you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IXFmv5uaPw
Down ennui,
Down ennui,
It looks like everybody
In the whole round world is
Down ennui
With apologies to Janis Joplin...
She played the National Guard Armory in Jacksonville just weeks before she died......PUN Extra credit!.....A++++!..............
Old Blue Eyes!...........A+++!................
Oh Tish! When you speak French, it makes my blood boil! LOL!
Ennui is a large island in the Scarboro Archipeligo...
The dregs have been drained
We have our hero in the White House.
It is time for warfare
Waged against the darkness.
For too long we have languished
In the hopeless ennui of apathy.
But now our joy is complete.
We have our mighty junkyard dog.
Bite ‘em, Donald.
Bite ‘em where it hurts.
We ain’t near tired no more.
Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war!................Excellent!.....A+++!.................
CAN news was upset Trump got inyoueye the other day.
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