The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Ostentatious describes displays designed to attract attention, often with excess and showiness, implying a lack of substance.

The easiest pangram of 2025 was flapping, found by 99 percent of players. The hardest pangram was philhellenic, which means ...

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Lugubrious, derived from the Latin \"lugere\" meaning \"to mourn,\" describes an exaggerated or theatrical sadness. This word ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

Origin and history The word 'remora' originates from the Latin word 'remorari', meaning to linger' or 'to delay'. This name ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

Apocryphal means of doubtful authenticity. It is apocryphal that the average Canadian says sorry over 45,000 times a day. It ...

Grody was initially spelled groaty, in the mid-1960s, and it’s basically used to describe something that’s slovenly, dirty, ...