- Today's Word
Frolicacious
[froh-li-key-shuhs]
Definition
- (adjective) A whimsical fusion of “frolic” and “delicious,” this term describes an experience, activity, or state of being that is delightfully playful, indulgent, and overflowing with uninhibited revelry, evoking a sense of carefree joy and delicious abandon.
Example
The annual water park celebration was a true frolicacious affair, with visitors of all ages frolicking in the pools, splashing down the slides, and indulging in the delicious revelry of childlike play, their laughter and squeals of delight filling the air with an infectious spirit of frolicacious merriment.
Fun Fact
The concept of “frolicacious” celebrates the idea that certain experiences or environments can ignite a state of pure, uninhibited play and delicious indulgence within individuals, inviting them to embrace their inner child and revel in the frolicacious delights of carefree joy and playful abandon. It suggests an atmosphere so conducive to playful revelry that it evokes a sense of delicious indulgence, where the soul is free to frolic and indulge in the frolicacious pleasures of unrestrained merriment.
(adjective) Lacking substance, interest, or mature thought; naive and simplistic in a way that reveals inexperience.
The critic dismissed the debut novel as jejune — competently written, technically adequate, and utterly devoid of anything worth remembering.
Jejune derives from the Latin jejunus, meaning “fasting” or “empty” — literally describing a stomach that has not been fed. The same root gives us jejunum, the section of the small intestine named for its tendency to be found empty after death. It entered English in the 17th century carrying its literal sense of emptiness before acquiring its figurative meaning of something intellectually or creatively hollow — content that has the form of nourishment without any of the substance.