Word for Word episode #37 Word of the Year 2020 Word for Word episode #29 Word of the Year 2019 Subscribe now on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon or your favourite podcast app to get the latest episode delivered direct to your inbox. You can also explore the 'additional links' below to discover what new words and definitions have been on our editor's minds in recent months. Join us as we explore our language: the ways we use it, the ways we abuse it, and the ways we ultimately change it. In this, the final episode of season 6, we join the Word of the Year Committee to discuss which word was crowned the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2021, the selection process and other words from the short list. What do you think of these new words? Should they be in the Macquarie Dictionary? If you’re natty, then you’ve developed your physique naturally – without the use of anabolic steroids or similar drugs. Thought stopping is a therapeutic technique for eliminating unwanted recurring thoughts: as soon as the bad thought arrives, you try to squash it.įinally, we have an adjective from the bodybuilding community. Sticking with the mind, the next new word comes from the field of psychology. That’s the perceived loss of mental capacity thought to be due to living through the pandemic. Speaking of which … now that COVID-19 has turned two, you’re very lucky if you haven’t yet suffered from pandemic brain. The term might be new to you, but the experience is probably frustratingly familiar! It’s not a specific disease, but rather any illness that coincides with a break from work. It’s something mango harvesters have to take precautions against, but thankfully it’s not a risk to shoppers in the fruit aisle.Īnother ailment you’ve hopefully avoided over the holidays is leisure sickness.
Have you been eating a lot of mango this summer? Perhaps you’ve heard of mango burn, a painful rash that’s caused by contact with mango sap. In that spirit, here are five new words themed around health and fitness.
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It's hard to choose exactly the right word if all you see is a list, so every word or phrase in our thesaurus comes with a full definition to help you make the right choice.February is here and with much of the country now back at work or school, with any luck you were able to return after a healthful and restful break. (3) Finally, the thesaurus provides definitions for the words it lists. Try looking up tennis or palm tree, for example, and you'll see a list of all the words to do with tennis or the words for types of tree. So when you're looking at a word for a concrete object – a plant, an animal, a machine, or a building, for example – the thesaurus provides a list of related words. There aren't really any synonyms for cottage, for example, but cottage belongs to a lexical set of words for buildings that people live in – words like house, apartment, mansion, and condo. But some types of word don't have synonyms. Most of the time, you'll be looking for another way of expressing a particular idea, and the thesaurus will give you a carefully-selected list of similar words and phrases. (2) Macmillan Thesaurus doesn't just give synonyms, but related words too. Just click on the thesaurus link at the end of the particular meaning you're looking at, and you'll see the synonyms for that meaning. In the Macmillan Thesaurus, each meaning of bright has its own separate list of synonyms. (1) The synonyms it provides relate to the particular meaning you are looking for, not just to the word.įor example, the word bright has plenty of synonyms – but the ones you need will depend on whether you're interested in bright meaning 'shiny' or bright meaning 'intelligent'. This makes our thesaurus unique in three ways: The Macmillan Thesaurus was developed at the same time as the dictionary, so these two resources work together to provide exactly the help you need.
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