Big Word Wednesday: Pulchritudinous

My knowledge of this week's word actually stems from high school, but it was renewed in my memory this week by the sign over a floral shop that reads "Pulchritudinous! In a word: beautiful, like our peonies!"

I first ran into this word during a creative writing class in high school. We were writing a short script for some reason or another and we were looking for a fun word for the beautiful daughter that meant "beautiful" without sounding like it.

Which is pulchritude. Which doesn't sound very pulchritudinous does it?

pulchritudinous. adjective. [puhl-kri-tood-n-uhs]. physically beautiful; comely. 

•  The first film dealt with the selection and training of the famed pulchritudinous cheerleading lineup.

Ciao,
kc