Posted on 10/18/2011 5:03:24 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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".
puissant [pyoo-uh-suhnt, pyoo-is-uhnt, pwis-uhnt]
-adj
Literary powerful; mighty; potent.
[1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *possent- (stem of *possēns ), for Latin potent- (stem of potēns ), present participle of posse to be able, have power; see potent, -ant ]
puissantly, adverb
overpuissant, adjective
overpuissantly, adverb
What’s the opposite of onomatopoeia? Cause this word doesn’t mean anything like how it sounds.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
i thought he got banned from FR for bashing sarah palin ; )
Anybody want to buy a T-bird? 1956 convertible with hard top.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
apparently i need a puissant dose of caffeine this AM. Even the guy behind the counter at Starbucks said to me at 6 am “rough morning already, is it? looks like you should have ordered the quad rather than the triple.” So yeah, random strangers are commenting on my stupor! and to make matters worse, on my walk into my building this AM, i was gripping the iphone in my hand and somehow made random calls to two people, who called me back! how humiliating!
That T-Bird Does present a Puissant Profile of Potent Pulchritude. If I only had a puissant bank account to match my automotive lusts.
How about nonomatopoeia? :-P
In French, even might power sounds wimpy.
$20k or so
Yes, I like it. A+
I purse dialed my husband a few weeks ago - he was laughing because he heard me talking to our son in the car with me
Wouldn’t be so bad if it was a family member, but one was a mom from xsjr’s school and the other was her tutor! To show what a coma i am in, even before doing the crank calling, i apparently had turned the ipod function on and in the parking garage elevator an older Indian gentleman and i were marveling that they had suddenly installed MUSIC in the elevator! yes, i was that out of it that i didn’t immediately notice it was coming from the phone i was gripping in my hot little hand! i really just need to chug the rest of this coffee bc i only feel marginally better.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
You win! lol That is an amazing coma you were in this morning - lol
He sure was.
Hey, Barack—
Someone added u to pissant and now you think that you’re puissant.
Gorgeous vehicle! I bet the radio can only play Elvis Presley songs.
Ha ha!
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