Sesquipedalian vs False - What's the difference?
sesquipedalian | false |
A long word.
* 1830 , On the Art of Rising in Prose The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, part 2, v. 29, Henry Colburn and Co., page: 162:
* 1927 , John S. Farmer, William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled "Slang and Its Analogues" , Taylor & Francis, page: 164:
* 1952 , Hannah More , Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page: 220:
A person who uses long words.
* 2008 , Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing ,Oxford University Press, page: 106:
* 2009 , Sally Adams, Wynford Hicks, Interviewing for Journalists , Taylor & Francis, page: 97:
* 2012 , Jonathan Herring, How to Argue: Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively , FT Press, chapter 8, page: ?:
(of a word or words) long; polysyllabic.
Pertaining to or given to the use of overly long words.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between sesquipedalian and false
is that sesquipedalian is (of a word or words) long; polysyllabic while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun sesquipedalian
is a long word.sesquipedalian
English
Noun
(en noun)- “The fine old fellow,” as a Northern contemporary of ours patronizingly calls him, certainly rolled out his sesquipedalians with a majesty previously unknown, and gave a fine organ-like swell to his full-blow periods;
- Fleet-streetese , the so-called English written to sell by the Fleet-streeter (q.v.), or baser sort of journalist: a mixture of sesquipedalians and slang, of phrases worn threadbare and phrases sprung from the kennel;
- ‘Sometimes we converse in ballad-rhymes, sometimes in Johnsonian sesquipedalians ; at tea we condescend to riddles and charades.’
- Word-watchers, verbivores, and sesquipedalians love a challenge.
- ‘What sort of writer is the English professor looking for?’ / ‘He wants a sesquipedalian , of course.’
- Don’t be a sesquipedalian'! / Yes, you guessed right. A ' sesquipedalian is a person who enjoys long words.
Adjective
(en adjective)- More people know the sesquipedalian word "antidisestablishmentarianism" than know what it means.
- Our dinner guest was so sesquipedalian that no one could understand what he said.
Synonyms
* (of long words) polysyllabic * (given to the use of long words) bombastic, grandiloquent, long-winded, florid, prolixAntonyms
* (of long words) monosyllabic, brachysyllabic * (given to the use of long words) brief, terse, laconicDerived terms
* sesquipedalianism – literary style characterised by the use of long words. * sesquipedalianist – a writer using sesquipedalianism. * sesquipedalophobia – fear of long words.false
English
Adjective
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