What's a big-vocabulary word for someone with a big vocabulary?
What's a big-vocabulary word for someone with a big vocabulary?
I'd like to say I'm looking for a "_____".
Solution 1:
A lexicomane? Literally: someone who’s mad about dictionaries…
This seems to be too new and/or marginal a coinage to appear in the major dictionaries yet; but it’s made from standard parts, and made well, so should be easily comprehensible (certainly by any big-vocabulary-person), and seems to be gaining quite a bit of currency (googling it reveals plenty of use). On Wordnik.
Solution 2:
I dunno, I kinda like Thesaurus Rex
Solution 3:
I was going to suggest sesquipedalian — which is certainly a big word, although perhaps not as precisely aligned with an extensive vocabulary as lexicomane (other than by inference). Still, I'm unsure that PLL's call is the right one.
Solution 4:
Vocabularian has the advantage of being quite adequately hoity-toity while also reasonably clear.