Words+Invented+by+Shakespeare

In all of his work – the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems – Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those **words, Shakespeare invented** an incredible 1,700 of them!

This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare:


 * //accommodation//
 * //aerial//
 * //amazement//
 * //apostrophe//
 * //assassination//
 * //auspicious//
 * //baseless//
 * //bloody//
 * //bump//
 * //castigate//
 * //changeful//
 * //clangor//
 * //control (noun)//
 * //countless//
 * //courtship//
 * //critic//
 * //critical//
 * //dexterously//
 * //dishearten//
 * //dislocate//
 * //dwindle//
 * //eventful//
 * //exposure//
 * //fitful//
 * //frugal//
 * //generous//
 * //gloomy//
 * //gnarled//
 * //hurry//
 * //impartial//
 * //inauspicious//
 * //indistinguishable//
 * //invulnerable//
 * //lapse//
 * //laughable//
 * //lonely//
 * //majestic//
 * //misplaced//
 * //monumental//
 * //multitudinous//
 * //obscene//
 * //palmy//
 * //perusal//
 * //pious//
 * //premeditated//
 * //radiance//
 * //reliance//
 * //road//
 * //sanctimonious//
 * //seamy//
 * //sportive//
 * //submerge//
 * //suspicious//

This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare:


 * //accommodation//
 * //aerial//
 * //amazement//
 * //apostrophe//
 * //assassination//
 * //auspicious//
 * //baseless//
 * //bloody//
 * //bump//
 * //castigate//
 * //changeful//
 * //clangor//
 * //control (noun)//
 * //countless//
 * //courtship//
 * //critic//
 * //critical//
 * //dexterously//
 * //dishearten//
 * //dislocate//
 * //dwindle//
 * //eventful//
 * //exposure//
 * //fitful//
 * //frugal//
 * //generous//
 * //gloomy//
 * //gnarled//
 * //hurry//
 * //impartial//
 * //inauspicious//
 * //indistinguishable//
 * //invulnerable//
 * //lapse//
 * //laughable//
 * //lonely//
 * //majestic//
 * //misplaced//
 * //monumental//
 * //multitudinous//
 * //obscene//
 * //palmy//
 * //perusal//
 * //pious//
 * //premeditated//
 * //radiance//
 * //reliance//
 * //road//
 * //sanctimonious//
 * //seamy//
 * //sportive//
 * //submerge//
 * //suspicious//