Thesauritis

When a person decides to improve his/her writing (essays, poetry, etc.) by looking up synonyms in a thesaurus and utilizing words that they think sound nice. In most cases, a person diagnosed with Thesauritis will use the words s/he found incorrectly - therefore making him/her look stupid in front of people with bigger vocabularies.

Thesauritis patient: "I besot you so profusely; all through the ignominious opprobrium and misconstrued paroxysms... my ventricles throb with plasma for you."

You: If you knew what those words meant, you wouldn't have said that.

by Waior December 27, 2009

Thesauratical Rerepresentation

1.A synonym for a real word, created either by mistake or on purpose, that doesn't exist in the English language. While bastardizing the English language, the words created sound like they could be in fact real words, but cannot be found, unless created.

2. Words being changed by type, such as nouns into verbs, and nouns into adjectives, and vice-versa. Can also be know as nouning.

Thesauratical Rerepresentation
1. The hidiousy (amount of hidious) of that girl made doing her impossible.

2. "Packing that moving van was hard, but I managed to 'Tetris' everything into it."

by BobtheHuman July 8, 2012

Thesaurusitis

When someone overuses a thesaurus in an essay or speech to make themselves sound smarter. However, by replacing small words with obscure words they don't really understand, it just makes them sound pretentious and stupid.

But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.

Blood libel? Purport? Looks like Sarah Palin suffers from thesaurusitis.

by Joyu January 16, 2011

Thesaurisize

To make a simple word more complex or otherwise sound smarter.

Person 1: The apple tastes good.

Person 2: Mann, you need to thesaurisize that bitch!

by BabyPuncher5000 January 18, 2011

thesauritize

Verb: Meaning to elaborate on, or try to out-do your own or others' use of the english language.

" I fell, nay, PLUMMETED down the stairs last night."

or:

person one: "I really do have a problem."
person two: Yes thats quite the quandry. Conundrum even."
person one: "Did you just thesauritize me?"

by Rachel Hager January 9, 2008