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Word For The Day - ENNUI
www.dictionary.com ^ | 06-30-2017 | Red Badger

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


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; History; Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: ennui; wftd; word
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1 posted on 06/30/2017 6:17:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; ...

Class is in session!.......No talking during Study Hall!..................


2 posted on 06/30/2017 6:17:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Red Badger
My eight years of ennui ended on January 20.

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.

3 posted on 06/30/2017 6:23:36 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: KarlInOhio

So did mine!..............A+++!...................


4 posted on 06/30/2017 6:27:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Red Badger

CNN is a major contributor to the national ennui, ennui refuse to watch it at my house.


5 posted on 06/30/2017 6:28:09 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I enjoy vodka, caviar, and salads with Russian dressing. Investigate me.)
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To: KarlInOhio; Red Badger

Moi Aussi!
Au Revoir to my ennui!


6 posted on 06/30/2017 6:29:40 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Red Badger

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


7 posted on 06/30/2017 6:35:09 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: KarlInOhio

“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!


8 posted on 06/30/2017 6:36:16 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Ennui don’t either!..................Pun Extra Credit!..............A++++!................


9 posted on 06/30/2017 6:38:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: dblshot

Too much CNN will give you am anyurism..............A+++!...........


10 posted on 06/30/2017 6:39:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: left that other site

.........Excellent A+++!...............

11 posted on 06/30/2017 6:41:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Red Badger

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


12 posted on 06/30/2017 6:46:44 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Red Badger

Down ennui,
Down ennui,
It looks like everybody
In the whole round world is
Down ennui

With apologies to Janis Joplin...


13 posted on 06/30/2017 6:51:36 AM PDT by null and void (This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
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To: null and void

She played the National Guard Armory in Jacksonville just weeks before she died......PUN Extra credit!.....A++++!..............


14 posted on 06/30/2017 6:55:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: heterosupremacist

Old Blue Eyes!...........A+++!................


15 posted on 06/30/2017 6:56:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Red Badger

Oh Tish! When you speak French, it makes my blood boil! LOL!


16 posted on 06/30/2017 7:21:19 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: null and void

Ennui is a large island in the Scarboro Archipeligo...


17 posted on 06/30/2017 7:23:57 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

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.


18 posted on 06/30/2017 7:29:17 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war!................Excellent!.....A+++!.................


19 posted on 06/30/2017 7:37:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Red Badger

CAN news was upset Trump got inyoueye the other day.


20 posted on 06/30/2017 9:17:41 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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