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etymology - If you can be discombobulated, is it possible to be . . . "I had had a psycholytic dose of LSD, one that allowed the patient to explore his psyche in an unconstrained but still deliberate manner while remaining sufficiently combobulated to talk about it " from "How To Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan, Penguin Books 2019, page 253 Here "combobulated" means the opposite of "discombobulated"
A fun, catchy way to say the opposite of a no-brainer? conundrum Definition of conundrum, from Merriam-Webster Only definition 2b, which I bolded, applies to your question, but conundrum is a fun word (at least IMO), and having three so different definitions adds piquancy to the word
Is there a term for what sheveled is to disheveled? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
word choice - I got puzzled paradoxically in a discombobulated . . . Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
What is the etymology of flabbergasted? - English Language Usage . . . Here’s the OED’s etymological note (lightly edited): First mentioned in 1772 as a new piece of fashionable slang; possibly of dialectal origin; Moor 1823 records it as a Suffolk word, and Jamieson, Supplement 1825, has flabrigast, 'to gasconade' [to boast extravagantly], flabrigastit 'worn out with exertion', as used in Perthshire
Discombobulate Crossword Clue Answers LA Times Crossword; May 12 2024; Discombobulate; Discombobulate While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Discombobulate crossword clue
Why has the word discombobulate stuck around? [closed] It is this nonsense quality that gives the word its meaning—i e , to throw into a state of confusion To be discombobulated is to be thoroughly befuddled Discombobulate is still a light word and might be out of place in more formal contexts, but it does turn up fairly often in edited publications (The Grammarist) Discombobulate v :
single word requests - Describing not knowing what to do (as a . . . I like flummoxed and gobsmacked Dumbfounded is good too Then there's that great lexeme that also comes to mind, discombobulated, but unfortunately it doesn't imply vacillation, but rather, mental disarray :(–
word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The fact that discombobulated is made up and not really derived from combobulated does mean that you can't use combobulated I think more or less anyone would understand what you meant, and if it caught on, combobulated would simply be derived from discombobulated Combobulated is, in other words, a perfectly cromulent word to me –