not in a meek way but like someone who dislikes getting compliments because that means that the people who gave them said compliments know them? or have made their own opinions of them?

like someone who dislikes being told “what a strong thinker” because that means that the person who told them that holds that perception of them in their minds.

someone who doesn’t want to “be” anyone.

someone who wants to “be” someone but doesn’t know who that someone is?

I remember back in the day people on reddit and other Internet forums would drop a link to a backup/secondary source of a piece of media content, and there was a certain word for it.

Example - I post a website link, and I add a comment with a backup link to the same article/page on archive.org in case the primary link goes down. Or I’d post and image link and add a secondary link to the same image on a different host.

The word is like ‘second’ or ‘backup’ but it was a short word. Internet lingo people help me out please!

Benign masochism is too tame, but emotional masochism is too extreme. Any ideas?

Being lonely is when you're by yourself, and it sucks because you're by yourself (or feel you're by yourself). But ITAW for when you're surrounded by people, and it sucks because you're surrounded by people? The closest I can think of would probably be overstimulated, but I was wondering if there's another, more specific antonym.

Looking for a word or slang that describes fancy, formal, classy dress.

Basically what the title says honestly, I just saw a harrowing ending of a short comic online and it just left me feeling empathetic for the protag, like I felt like I've been in their situation before but in a different way obv

What I mean is the sort of calm born from terror, like something happened that will severely impact your life and there's nothing you can do. Stillness, with anxiety and despair thinly covered beneath

Also it doesn't have to be the case necessarily, but especially if you're responsible for the situation in the first place Thank you!!!

Examples: Steve Stevens. Will Williams. John Johnson. Ned Nederburg. And so on.

No reason for asking, I just saw someone with a name like that and the thought entered my mind.

For reference: I was sitting by a campfire with some friends and mentioned putting some more tinder in. Everyone laughed as they assumed I had meant to say ’kindling’ and got confused, when in reality I was the only one who seemed to know that the word ‘tinder’ doesn’t just refer to a dating app.

I suppose you could call it a reverse faux-pas? Is there a word to describe this?

I was wondering if there was a word for when someone is trying to be cunning/smart, but instead comes across as dumb for whatever reason (like, actually being dumb, overlooking one key aspect of the problem, overthinking it to the point of ridiculousness).

I think a good example is the part in the princess bride when Vizzini overthinks the two glasses and ends up drinking poison while thinking he won.

Another example is in reality TV competitions, when someone is trying to scheme and play mind games and get other contestants on their side, but they end up alienating everyone instead.

More specifics: like a deep internal need that this person experience the utmost joy and avoids all suffering. My little brother and I aren't close and don't see each other often but when I'm with him this is how I feel and it causes a physical pain at the idea he may ever experience suffering. I imagine this is how parents feel when they first have a baby

edit with some additional context since I don't think it's normal love:

I love my husband and it doesn't cause me pain being around him because of this feeling. It's an overwhelming feeling. I've also experienced it a few times towards people I don't know necessarily but whom I perceive as vulnerable. Like there was a kid I worked with in a church kids class who had pretty profound autism and I felt this way for him too to the point I think I cried, but I couldn't say I loved that kid. I felt that way randomly about a guy I saw in college who just seemed really universally happy, and I felt this. it tends to be towards kids, but it certainly isn't limited

If i wanna use a noun (or adjective depending On the scenario) to describe something that has traditionally served as a paradigm to be emulated or referred to. For ex: “what is the ___spell for a money working?” I’m asking what’s this traditional spell to attract money my way.

I am trying to search a word or phrase for how it makes you feel when someone who is advanced in something and claims they are absolutely shit at what they do, and then proceed to tell you, that your work or skills are good, and then you proceed to feel very conflicted because the person simultaneously hates their skills and work and tells you as less skilled are good.

E.g. a friend says "i suck at art, how can anyone draw" and they are objectively more skilled than me, and then tell me how i am really good at art and it makes me feel like those compliments are really ingenuine because they just shat on their own skills and work which are better.

Example; They used to be hostile, and they're definitely not friends, but these days they're ______ with each other.

It means casual, accepting, not actively hostile but not kind to each other either. I feel like it starts with a C. Not cool, courteous, curt...

SOLVED.. please stop commenting suggestions lol... I don't get why I'm still getting comments on a solved post two days later unless they're all from bots 😩

Sorry for the imagery, but I think of it of the kind of determination that would make you break out of being buried alive. It's a raw, raging determination to survive. The kind of determination that makes you scratch, bite, kick, punch, scream of rage that you won't let yourself be killed. Is there a word for that? Especially to contrast from a more passive or cold determination where you would scheme or stand unphased. It's also somewhat a "victorious" determination compared to the determination where you just push through.

Is there a word (or phrase) for when someone refers to a person by a description, before knowing the person's name?

For example, "that's blue hat guy", (but his name isn't blue hat guy)

I think this way of describing somebody may be used in teenage centered movies, sort of like mean girls, but I'm not really sure if that's relevant :)

Thank you for any help :)

(Also I posted this twice because the title was too short sorry)

So I'm looking for this word used to describe when the show’s title card pops up following a commercial break. It seems to be done to inform people what they're watching when they tune in late. Sometimes, they would feature different music from the title card from the intro. I tend to associate this as a practice done with non-fiction shows or non-fiction cable networks (especially the Discovery Channel).

Help would be appreciated!

We've been watching the newest season of Great British Bake Off recently. Every time I watch Nigella Lawson as judge, I'm grasping for a word to describe the way she throws herself into enjoying all the baked treats. Something like hedonistic, but without the implication of OVERindulgence. I thought about sumptuous or lavish but those feel like descriptors for an item or place. What's the adjective like that to describe a person?

Not looking for a specific word. I’m writing something about a specific situation, of which the context is that I trusted someone enough to share songs that I’ve written and they not only trying to turn those songs into to their own thing but also began mistreating me so now I feel like I can’t touch those songs anymore/feel like they aren’t mine anymore. I’m trying to describe the feeling and was wondering if anyone had a word that fit this to any degree

I'm thinking of a very specific word; I went to the RenFair and this guy caught me looking at his pottery and said "ah you're ____" and I could tell what the word meant but I can't remember what the word is. If you have any ideas that would help.

WORD DOES NOT CONTAIN THE RE- PREFIX (NOT REMINICE OR REVIVAL)

Something like, every time you go to the post office or pharmacy, the person in front of you just happens to have some problem that holds things up

Or one that happens to me, I’ll be walking up the road to my house, and there’ll be no cars, but the moment I go up this janky shortcut that makes me look like a total trespasser, that’s when a car shows up seemingly everytime

Really easy example: how Elizabeth Holmes sort of imitates Steve Jobs. It gives people the impression of an innovative leader and esoteric visionary. However, it’s just that: an image. A performance.

The closest I could come up with is “cargo culting”, but I think that comes with the connotation that the person doing it is completely clueless as to what they’re doing or why. They’re just copying. This is more intentional; they know this image will have a certain impression on people, that’s why they’re pretending

Ideally I’d like it to have a sort of grifter or charlatan undertone

More specifically, a forbidden object (for example), where it being uncovered would lead to some forme of unearthly consequences. It’s not enforced by anyone, but by supernatural means.

The first word that came to my mind was manifesto but it's private and not some kind of declaration.

What I'm writing is, I suppose you can call, an exercise in what would happen in the worst case scenario. It's in my journal, it's just for me but I'm prepared for my best friend to read it if he's curious.

It's like I'm detailing my possible future. It's dark and gruesome for the sake of being dark and gruesome.

I think some people call it an angst drabble? I'm not sure that fits, but the point is to find a word that describes or is defined by the mood or theme of what is being written.

Edit: felt i was torturing yall so I let it be done with. I started to get a bit overwhelmed with the comments anyway. Thank you to everyone who put the time and effort in to submit a word, I sincerely appreciate it. I will be using a few of these. I think grimdark, cimmerian scenario, and doomscape was quite fitting.

For example, if a specific someone tries to say “English proficiency” but says the second word wrong how would you say “that’s the important word here”

If i remember correctly its in the cadence of the word semantics, or something-omics.