Pulchritudinous - Word of the Day - The Chief Storyteller

Pulchritudinous is today’s Word of the Day. It is an adjective only used to describe people.

WORD	TYPE	DEFINITION	PRONUNCIATION
Pulchritudinous	Adjective	A word to describe a person with great physical beauty	pul-kruh-TOO-di-nuhs

SOURCE	From pulchritude (from Latin pulchritudo “beauty,” genitive pulchritudinis) + -ous. Noted as far back as early 1400’s.

EXAMPLES	“Wait a minute— why is the pulchritudinous new girl now talking to my brother?” Source: The Crossover television show “Green plays the pulchritudinous Miss G, her eyes glittering through thick mascara as she whips up all manner of hormonal storms in her teenaged charges.” Source: The Guardian, Apr 2, 2010 “They gazed, short breathed, in awe, upon this radiantly bestriped, unspeakably fascinating, wholly and resplendently pulchritudinous creation.” Source: Emerson Hough “Its outlier pulchritude tells us something important about the business of volume-production car building: Beauty costs money.” Source: Dan Neil, WSJ, 15 Oct 2020

Information Sources: Combination of Dictionary.com; Dictionary of American Regional English; Merriam-Webster Dictionary; Collins English Dictionary; Oxford English Dictionary; Vocabulary.com; A Word a Day; The Etyman™; The Word Finder (J.I. Rodale)
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Pulchritudinous – Word of the Day