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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"
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 –
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 :
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
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
Need colorful synonym for dumbfounded or baffled 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
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
What does it mean? vs. What does that mean? — whats the difference? Pretty similar, yes? Look a little more closely, however The first pair indicates that you want to know what aspect of the word discombobulated applies to me, and not necessarily a definition of the word The second pair indicates you want me to give you a definition of the word discombobulated There's a difference between the two, but it is
word choice - Do I assign something to me or do I assign it to myself . . . In chatting with a coworker, I asked "Should I assign [the task] to myself" but then I got discombobulated and wondered if it should have been "to me" instead I searched for an answer but didn't find anything that seemed to match this situation So, which is correct and why? Does it have to do with it being a prepositional phrase?
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