Words Shakespeare Invented
In all of his work – the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems – Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those words, Shakespeare invented an incredible 1,700 of them!
This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare:
- accommodation
- aerial
- amazement
- apostrophe
- assassination
- auspicious
- baseless
- bloody
- bump
- castigate
- changeful
- clangor
- control (noun)
- countless
- courtship
- critic
- critical
- dexterously
- dishearten
- dislocate
- dwindle
- eventful
- exposure
- fitful
- frugal
- generous
- gloomy
- gnarled
- hurry
- impartial
- inauspicious
- indistinguishable
- invulnerable
- lapse
- laughable
- lonely
- majestic
- misplaced
- monumental
- multitudinous
- obscene
- palmy
- perusal
- pious
- premeditated
- radiance
- reliance
- road
- sanctimonious
- seamy
- sportive
- submerge
- suspicious
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Ohh myy golly…..thank you sooo very much…This is really A-MAZE-ING!!!! I never knew these words were invented by William Shakespeare. Is this all that he invented or is more? Can you pleaase answer me back because I need too know…Thank-you vvery VERY much! (:
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There are more words that Shakespeare invented such as: puke, bubble, and many more… He invented roughly 1,700 words by combining Latin roots, phrases and meanings…. Hope this helps(:
hi whats the bibliograhpy for this?
i love Shakespeare, he was a genius without university education!
would you tell me which one of his neologism is utilised just in his sonnets?
i need it for a research.
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I absolutely love shakespeare he is such an inspirational character to me and he is the one I wake up in the morning for although this isn’t good information.
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Of those words I used 31 today alone! All the words he invented are very common espicially aerial, suspicious, and lonely.
Hi. I’m pretty sure that Shakespeare did not invent the word “pious” as Plato (a philosopher) used it in a few of his dialogues way before Shakespeare was even born. Just letting you know
Btw, Shakespeare is awesome <3
He Also invented the word Puke