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15 forgotten English words we can still use today

Every language changes with time. So does English, and you can't imagine how many beautiful words with exact and witty meanings got lost. Take a look at this list!



Have you ever heard any of these words before? Do you think we should bring back any of them?


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181 Comments
Andrea Eckert Watters
Are you sure these are old words? They all sound like somebody I know!
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05.03.2018 04:57
Ernest Koppe
We're living in a kakistocracy where the common folk are sufffering from abliguration.
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17.08.2021 08:13
David Heinz
Almost all the words I have never heard of before and would probably never use.
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18.10.2025 05:25
David Heinz
I guess I did a cacoethes on this one. Oh well!
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18.10.2025 05:23
Alick Wills
#4 applies to the current government system of the United States
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01.10.2025 08:10
Fiona McWilliam
Krakistocracy has to come back into the vernacular just now!
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19.11.2024 11:03
Buddhadeb Pal
Liked the word kakistocracy. It is real time for most of the countries in the world.
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27.09.2023 08:26
Caroline Weis
Ernest Koppe, my thoughts too. Glad someone else related how we are living now under the current administration.
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24.06.2023 04:35
Allison Aspden
I testing explanations of these little-used words. Learnt something.
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09.05.2023 08:34
wyodinosaur
Interesting. I have never used any of those words in a sentence either written or verbal.
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08.01.2023 05:21
epmusic paul
Love these words! Several sound very timely for us trying to get out of the kakistocracy we’ve been living in.
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24.08.2022 09:59
Corol Wade Bevier
Have been a practicing slugabed for years, Fairly common word in Northeast others deserve more exposure
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18.04.2022 07:31
Conrado De Leon
We had a kakistocratic government in Uruguay for 15 years. and my cats are confirmed GROKERS.
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09.09.2021 12:36
Doris Dallaire
I like them. Especially Fudgel
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31.08.2021 04:32
lmoores
This is kakistocracy we are living in now. We common folk are practicing abliguration.
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28.08.2021 07:19
honeyjackson
NO! We don't need any of these crazy words brought back, IMHO!
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17.02.2021 07:39

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