Frustration at Adjectives.

These are the adjectives that, while I love them and use them constantly, no longer imply their original meaning and, seeing as I know their original meaning and I deal with very literal people, make it harder to say what you really mean.

Adorable: Able to be adored or worthy of adoration.
Adorable: Really cute.

Amazing: Causing amazement or leaving a person amazed.
Amazing: Really good or cool, great

Awesome: Causing awe or leaving a person awed.
Awesome: Really good or cool, great

Excellent: Excelling or beyond average. Something that excels.
Excellent: Really good or cool, great (many of them have begun to mean this)

Fantastic: Of or coming from something of a fantasy. Unreal, not possible, magical.
Fantastic: Really good or cool, great

Horrible: Causing horror or fear, filled with horror
Horrible: Really bad or uncool

Incredible: Opposite of credible, meaning not possible, not plausible; absurd, far-fetched
Incredible: Really good or cool, great

Marvelous: Able to be marvelled at, something to be marvelled.
Marvelous: Really good or cool, great

Extraordinary: Beyond ordinary, super.
Extraordinary: Really good or cool, great

Outrageous: Causing outrage, creating anger
Outrageous: Ridiculous, preposterous OR bad-ass, sick

Outstanding: Standing out, not fitting in
Outstanding: Really good or cool, great

Remarkable: Able to be remarked upon, worthy of remark
Remarkable: Really good or cool, great, unique, different (good way)

Terrible: Full of or causing terror, full or fear
Terrible: Really bad or uncool

Wonderful: Full of or causing wonder
Wonderful: Really good or cool, great

*Selfish: Supposed to mean caring about oneself more than others, but word is "self" "ish". "ish" implies only kinda sorta. Just thought that one was ironic.


There are so many, many more. These are just SOME of the big ones. Next time you want to say that something is "really good or cool, great" by being creative, try and do it with a word that doesn't have a more literal meaning. Not so easy, btw.