Top Ten Most Misused Words
You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means.
Everyone says, Insert something here is cancer.
To those who have never had cancer or known anyone with it: Stop. This is making fun of people with cancer. Saying that makes no sense. Just say, I don't like [insert the thing they said is cancer here]. Is that so hard?!
Cancer is a non-communicable disease caused by abnormal cells undergoing cell division too fast and forming a tumor. These cells can spread throughout several organs.
The internet has gone downhill because of morons using diseases to describe things they hate or think are awful.
It's a pet peeve of mine when people do this:
Literally is literally way overused to the point where it literally isn't even funny anymore. I get that people literally use it to emphasize something, but can you literally stop using the word literally? It's literally annoying. Literally.
Literally is just the term based on dictionaries.
"My head is literally falling off from laughter!"
Gay used to mean happy, not homosexual. Then the word became another word for a homosexual. Now it's just an insult.
Gay is often used to insult someone in the way it is supposed to be used as well. I think that's the real crime.
Gay is when you are attracted to the same gender. It does not mean everything on God's green earth you don't like.
I hate when people overuse the word like. It's like so annoying.
Like, I was like, this word like, drives me mad.
Like is when you say you enjoy something, not to fill in any thought.
This site in a nutshell. People add a song to a list of worst songs just because it's "overrated," not further explaining why they don't like it.
The same goes for movie lists.
This is the most misused word on this site, as several people think everything overrated is automatically bad. It has been misused since I joined this site. It's sad that people can't see the difference between overrated and bad.
Okay, big misconception here:
Overrated means that something has received excessive attention compared to what one believes it deserves. It does NOT mean something is bad!
The misuse makes me hate the fact I have this...
They use this as an insult! This should be #1.
Why is this all the way at the bottom? This deserves to be #1 or at least #2 since cancer is there.
My little sister has been becoming dumb. She doesn't know how to type, and she has been acting childish. Also, she asked me to give her only cereal. I told her cereal isn't food, and you cannot only eat cereal. You are going to get sick. Mayonnaise isn't an instrument.
Random means an unbiased and undecided selection out of a few choices. It does NOT mean weird.
It does mean strange and unusual, but it's informal.
Assumed definition: A noun to describe something bad.
Actual definition: A verb that describes when you look away in disgust.
On the list of ironies, a visitor said, "A Dead End sign at a graveyard." A Dead End sign at a graveyard coincides, yes, but it barely has any sort of irony.
Ironic means contrary, not hilarious or weird.
It has the exact same meaning as underrated, but this word doesn't actually exist.
Something that is underrated isn't always good, just like something overrated isn't always bad.
Extremely misused. If you criticize a country, you're automatically a racist nowadays, but it's actually xenophobia instead of racism.
Using the words "black" or "white" in a positive context isn't racist either.
A racist is a person who discriminates against other races. It's not about disliking stuff that came from other countries.
People always get empathy and sympathy confused. Empathy is when you understand someone else.
This is probably the most important skill to have in life in general.
Sometimes I get it confused with sympathy.
It's a genre of anime/manga. It has little to do with shipping.
It just turned into an insult directed at anyone who enjoys anything Japanese.
Idiots, you DON'T want to call/refer to yourself as a 'weeaboo.' Just say '______ fan' because that's not what weeaboo means. You're really just insulting yourself otherwise.
The word is often slung around by hardcore right-wing nutcases to insult us liberals.