Top 10 Least Creative Words

Let's remind us of the words we are tired to hear over and over again. This list is not only about online comments, but also prose and real-life conversations.

Also note that least creative is not the same as most overused. Here we are talking about words that people say with a routine without ever thinking how to say it in a different way.
The Top Ten
1 Awesome

I've never known this word until I started reading in English online (I am not from an English-speaking country), it's not taught in English (as foreign language) coursebooks. The first two pages of Best Song of All Time contain the word awesome 34 times.

I usually stick to excellent as it sounds less childish, I do use this word sometimes though just so that it won't get too much of one word

2 Suck

Although the word itself is bland, the origin of its slang-like meaning is quite interesting. But this word still sucks.

3 Really

Least creative reply in conversations with somebody you caught up on the street. (some average sentence) I've just finished reading the book you gave me for Christmas. Really?

It seems really is just a way to avoid staying in silence. It doesn't help the conversation move on.

4 Absolutely

Especially in informative T.V. programmes

5 Awkward

At the beginning I thought awkward was the same as awesome. This proves that this word if often used in inappropriate context due to poor vocabulary.

6 Overrated

The word "overrated" is overrated.

7 Terrible

Horrid, horrible, awful, dreadful, gruesome. I could name five similar words without a thesaurus without being a native English speaker, this proves that people don't even think what word to use before saying 'terrible". After checking a thesaurus: direful, horrendous, disastrous, ghastly, atrocious.

My Aunt always uses this word nonstop. Also this reminds me of my dad, except it's the word "horrible". He never seems to use words to describe bad things aside from "horrible". I wish he expanded his vocabulary more.

8 Chuckle

I feel like every second word in a novel is chuckled, muttered, stared or cried.

Chuckle sounds like something negative but it seems like a positive for some reason

9 Underrated

I didn't include overrated because there's a lack of possibilities (at least for me) to say its meaning in a different way. In this case: needs more attention, depriciated, misjudged, misunderestimated...

10 Simple

Plain, barren, boring, normal, the same, etcetera.

The Contenders
11 Actually

Does this word even have a meaning or it just gives you time to think? Two versions of the same sentence in an interview:

Version 1: I am actually a more extrovert and outgoing person.
Version 2: I am (2 seconds of silence) a more extrovert and outgoing person.

Actually is another way of saying "In fact".

12 Amazing

Better than awesomne, but what does the amazon have to do with positive?

13 Literally

This is literally the most over used word at my school. Literally everyone uses it in every sentence. It's literally the worst.

14 Faith

This word makes me question my faith in humanity, am I right?

It is just another word for believe, but worse because it is used by religious authorities to get money off people and scare them into submission

15 Nice

I don't know if they do it in other schools, but when I was growing up, my teacher always encouraged us not to use the word "nice" as an adjective. All of us had a tendency to overuse it.

16 Selfie
17 Edgy
18 The
19 Bazinga
20 Guy
21 Retarded

I agree as a autistic bullying victim I heard this awesome I either feel sad or even angry enough to punch the bullies in the goddamn face!

22 Um
23 Apple

This is a great addition to the list. Ask any person on the street to say a random word, most will say apple.

24 Autotune

Oh these singers today suck because they're actually overrated rely on autotune to sing well so they really do suck not like the 1980-1990s which are awesome, amazing and nice. - chuckled the absolutely edgy teen on TheTopTens.

I have also heard it applied even to singers who don't actually use it anyway.

I'm fine with autotune as a tool, but not a crutch.

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