Saturday, November 20, 2010

Vocabulary Lesson

Matt and I recently had a debate about the true meaning of both of these words:


Philistine:

a person who is lacking in or hostile to or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or who is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.


Nonplus:

to render utterly perplexed; to puzzle completely.

All I'm saying is, for the last 10 years I've been using "nonplussed" as a synonym for "underwhelmed." Who knew?

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