anemious

[prettygoodword]

anemious - adj., growing in windy conditions.


This is one of a handful of words that have all five vowels once and only once, in alphabetical order -- others being abstemious (sparing), acheilous (lipless), annelidous (wormlike), arsenious (containing trivalent arsenic), caesious (bluish-gray), and facetious (not serious). From Greek anemos, wind.

---L.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I've only seen abstemious and facetious actually used.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I did caesious as a pretty good word, early on. (Or maybe it was before I started doing it here.)

---L.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, would the header-bar of your comment be caesious, or is it a more specific shade?

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Caesious is a gray-blue, sometimes even a lavender.

---L.