English Vocabulary: 10 adjectives invented by Shakespeare

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Hi Alex,I like what you gave here. Thnks., From which stories did you take the these Adjectives? I want to see the all sentence in each word. Thnks- Thafrir from ISRAEL-JERUSALEM

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[@eduardorodrigues8413]

Tranquil seems to be a Latin word. In my language (Portuguese and also in Spanish) we use to say "tranquilo" with the same meaning. Maybe because Shakespeare knew many classic writers such as Virgilius and he was able to transpond this word to his own language.

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In French there is similar word tranquille, and English was greatly influenced with old French.

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That is very true .. Shakespeare had knowledge of other Europian languages as well as Latin.

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In a video where the teacher starts sing "shake shake shake, William Shakespeare", you know it can't be a lackluster lesson. :P

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[@ahmedbusati6268]

A nice lesson; as light as a light snack.. ."lonely" I believe could also give the sense of being little bit scared or feel tense ; eg. The "lonely road".. ie a road which nobody uses it because it might be said it is haunted, this is just out of exaggeration, or it seems so calm, and it is seldom to see any sign of living creature thereon.

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[@tbone2885]

Isn't it insane how a person can just invent a word, and then get them into the common language? I was astounded when I learned of some of the words Shakespeare invented. Words such as "critical" or "impartial" are so critical (see what I did there?) to my vocabulary. I think my goal in life is to invent a single word that everyone will begin to use!

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It's pretty awesome, isn't it? I wish I could invent a word too. Maybe one day...

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LoL. Well, you can use a few of my words that I made up. I have quite a few. Here are two of them: spithy- confusing, indirect, wobbly, interchangeable and treptinictive- an occurrence that leads to unsettling thoughts

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And, here's a (sort of) positive one: decilious- when a nonedible object of favor is appealing in a way that you are tempted to eat it, but can't because the object is inedible (some examples: a bowl of plastic fruit, a cute/antic/fuzzy baby animal, an adorably dressed child, etc.) I've heard some people say "awe, that little boy/girl/puppy/kitten etc. is so adorable I could just eat him/her up!"

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here's another one I like because tora and venomous go together well, so I combined them (tora means tiger/lightening attack in japanese, & tora is also a type of wild african antelope hartebeest, and venom is an animal's poison ): "toravenomous"- a vicious surprise wild attack

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I'm so using this. I have a couple of young kids, and yeah, decilious could definitely be applied to them!

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Haha. I should have thought about that. Maybe next time. A lot of Shakespeare's words have darker or negative meanings.

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Tranquil is basically like tranquilo in Potuguese.

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If you "live under a rock," it means that you are ignorant of what is happening in the outside world. "Wait. Donald Trump is the president of the United States?" "You seriously didn't know that? Have you been living under a rock for the past year?"

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'Tranquil' is basically 'tranquille' in french, which means the same :)

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That makes it easier! :)

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Hello Alex! How are you? Well, I believe that some words belong or come from Latin language, for example: Tranquil, in Portuguese we can say:Tranquilo or Tranqüilo.

[@engvidAlex]

Absolutely! As I mentioned, Shakespeare is credited with these words, but it doesn't mean they didn't exist before him, or that they didn't exist in other languages.

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[@engvidAlex]

You can definitely say that someone's efforts were lackluster, and you can definitely say that you feel your own life is lackluster. "Luster" is originally from the Latin "lustrare," which means "to illuminate." If something LACKS luster, it means it lacks illumination/light. It is not vibrant.

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What is " Cirque de Soleil" ?

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It's a famous circus show that started in Quebec, Canada. Here is a link to their latest show: www.cirquedusoleil.com/luzia

[@bionicleboy6445]

I know only the words wortless and lonely.Recently I discovered that love is blind comes from Shakespeare.

[@morticiaddams]

Astonishing that the word "lonely" is Shakespeare's word

[@iamdangalira976]

lackluster is my favourite

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dangalira a luz English English is spelled lacklustre IJ liverpool

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Haha. Maybe just a little bit.

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It's a pretty awesome name. Haha.

[@speakenglishwithmremad3974]

Most text books are lackluster

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I think you're correct!

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All the way from Morocco? Amazing! It's my pleasure. Thanks for watching.

[@ivanurgant1621]

Effort can be lackluster

[@engvidAlex]

Exactly! "That was a lackluster effort."

[@ОлексійЛущієнко]

I can't believe the word 'lonely' was invented by Shake-spire.

[@engvidAlex]

I know what you mean. Like I mentioned, many of the words existed before him, but he is credited with bringing them into common usage in the English-speaking world. When you're famous, people will make grand stories to make you sound more important than you probably are or were. That said, Shakespeare is very important to the history of English and its culture(s)...especially in the arts.

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Good for him. ☺ Thank you , anyway.

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The lesson was NOT lackluster..

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Thanks a lot.

[@roucoupse]

cold-blooded, in French we have the same words for the very same meaning and I don't think sang-froid came from Shakespeare. I am baffled.

[@engvidAlex]

Yeah, like I mentioned, these words are credited to Shakespeare, but many of them existed before him...he just made them famous and put them into more common usage in the English-speaking world.

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oh shakespeare is very famous in turkey i mean we love him too much we even named him as şeyh pir true story

[@engvidAlex]

I didn't know Shakespeare was famous in Turkey. Awesome!

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shake shake shake 😂😂

[@engvidAlex]

I'm glad you enjoyed that. I had a good time doing it!

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[@khalidq8245]

??????can we use these words in the TOEFL

[@MLSSTM]

Very funny...they come directly from italian. The composed words have a precise meaning traslated in Italian (from centuries before "Shakespeare"); and the normal simple words taked without discussion from italian but cutting the last vocal. Funny. Maybe there is something more than a simple italian pleasure travel in him. Am i wrong?

[@dollyjeanstevens]

Not quite true, Shakespeare’s vocabulary was average when compared to his contemporaries of the time such as, Ben Johnson and Sir Philip Sidney who had a similar vocabulary range. His genius was in the way he used grammar.

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00:00 to 00:05 was In poor taste.smh.

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Same to you, Drigpal! All the best.

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I'm just jaded! need to find a new job hehe..

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It happens to most of us!

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Someone had a great time last night, if you know what I mean.

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Shakespeare does that to me.

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[@dollyjeanstevens]

Shakespeare was an adaptor and not a creator plus pronouns, nouns and grammar that he used are no longer with us. English readers often search for Shakespeare more than other writers of the renaissance period (16th-17th cen) thus give us a false notion that he created so many words..

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[@engvidAlex]

I wasn’t born in Canada, but I’ve lived here for 34 years. English is the language I speak every day, and I have a standard Southern Ontario accent that you’ll hear everywhere around Toronto. I grew up in Canada surrounded by Canadian and American culture. Why am I not a native speaker? 🤔