Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Dictionary.com has selected a word of the year for 2025 that is not even technically a word – it's more of an inside joke ...

Some words feel alive, even when they are describing the dead. “Wraith” is one of those words. This short word is like a whisper yet carries power and can describe anything from a ghost of a person, ...

If you walk through a cavernous hall with flickering lanterns, ghostly projections and dreamlike illusions — there’s a word to describe this phenomenon. It is called “phantasmagoria,” and it is the ...

You know that feeling when you’re bored, but you want to describe it in a philosophically complex kind of way? It’s like you’re too jaded to be entertained but too alive to be asleep. It’s not quite ...

Ever heard someone waffle on an answer during a debate? There is an elegant word for that, and it is called “tergiversate.” It may be a mouthful of syllables, but its meaning can be as evasive as the ...

Go ahead and roll your eyes. Shrug your shoulders. Or maybe just juggle your hands in the air. Dictionary.com’s word of the year isn’t even really a word. It’s the viral term “6-7” that kids and ...

But putting forward a theory of progress is not only a way of settling a theoretical dispute; it’s also a move with real stakes. As confidence in collective life wanes, progress can seem not merely ...