Respeldent (adj)
res-plen-dent
Attractive and impressive through being richly colourful or sumptuous.
Late Middle English from Latin resplendent- ‘shining out’, from the verb resplendere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + splendere ‘to glitter’.
Example sentences
“The garden looked resplendent in the summer sunshine.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)