Vocabularian
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who cultivates a large or impressive vocabulary. uncommon
"You might have one of these prodigious vocabularians in your house."
- 1 Of or relating to vocabulary. not-comparable, uncommon
"The use of strong drink gives to our English tongue the following verbs:—tipple, tope, booze, swill, guzzle, carouse, liquor, fuddle, drink, soak, sot, swig, inebriate, intoxicate, fuzzle, temulate, and to be intemperate, anti-teetotal, compotative, &c. Compare this plentifulness of vocabularian distinctions, reaching from the first tremulous overpush of the balance of the faculties in fresh to their complete obliteration in dead-drunk, with the scanty replenishment of phrases supplied for use on the opposite side of temperance. We have, it is true, moderate as a sort of see-saw go-between, temperate, somewhat in advance of that, and sober, abstinent, teectotal, very proper terms indeed; […]"
Example
More examples"The use of strong drink gives to our English tongue the following verbs:—tipple, tope, booze, swill, guzzle, carouse, liquor, fuddle, drink, soak, sot, swig, inebriate, intoxicate, fuzzle, temulate, and to be intemperate, anti-teetotal, compotative, &c. Compare this plentifulness of vocabularian distinctions, reaching from the first tremulous overpush of the balance of the faculties in fresh to their complete obliteration in dead-drunk, with the scanty replenishment of phrases supplied for use on the opposite side of temperance. We have, it is true, moderate as a sort of see-saw go-between, temperate, somewhat in advance of that, and sober, abstinent, teectotal, very proper terms indeed; […]"
Etymology
From vocabulary + -an.
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