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Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 > Topic Options #210876 - 05/10/13 10:23 PM Sophisticated word for the following...? Sorrow stranger Registered: 05/10/13 Posts: 1 Loc: Waukegan, IL, USA "Lack of Hygiene" Dictionaries and thesauri aren't helping. Top #210877 - 05/11/13 05:39 AM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: Sorrow] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 Onelook's reverse dictionary gives its typical lots-of-chaff answer, but I think the number 1 offering looks pretty good. Top #210884 - 05/11/13 05:44 PM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: Faldage] Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1075 Loc: Lancaster, UK Uk English would use the word, "scruffy" for a general lack of hygiene and tidyness _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise Top #210886 - 05/11/13 08:47 PM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: Sorrow] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 That works in AmE, too, but it's not exactly what I would call sophisticated. Top #210887 - 05/11/13 11:11 PM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: Faldage] Tromboniator old hand Registered: 05/10/10 Posts: 954 Loc: Alaska Interesting. I've always understood scruffiness to be a matter of appearance only, that sanitation is a separate, though not necessarily unrelated, issue. Top #210888 - 05/12/13 08:31 AM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: Tromboniator] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi inhygienical Top #210965 - 05/15/13 08:01 PM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: Sorrow] Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11613 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky A friend who wishes to stay anonymous suggested "Pestilent or pestilential." Top #210972 - 05/16/13 08:43 AM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: Rhubarb Commando] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5295 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Originally Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Uk English would use the word, "scruffy" for a general lack of hygiene and tidyness Sounds sophisticated enough to me. It's even English! Why would one need a sophisticated word for an unsophisticated state of being anyway? Is it rude, inpolite, offensive, arrogant or derogatory to ask this? Top #210975 - 05/16/13 05:48 PM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: BranShea] Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1075 Loc: Lancaster, UK I guess it depends upon context, to some extent, Branny. It could be offensive or arrogant, I spose. But it is certainly impolite and might well be a little bit rude or offensive. Edited by Rhubarb Commando (05/16/13 05:48 PM) _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise Top #210979 - 05/16/13 08:05 PM Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? [Re: BranShea] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 Originally Posted By: BranShea Why would one need a sophisticated word for an unsophisticated state of being anyway? Dunno. That's what Sorrow asked for. Top Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8945 Members 16 Forums 13866 Topics 222179 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members geoffhargreaves, Guadalupe, may2point0, Lonnie, SSD 8945 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 13 Guests and 4 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) wofahulicodoc 60 LukeJavan8 50 may2point0 13 May 3 Tromboniator 3 geoffhargreaves 1 Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 13803 Jackie 11613 tsuwm 10538 LukeJavan8 8426 Buffalo Shrdlu 7210 wofahulicodoc 6783 AnnaStrophic 6511 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400

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