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[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

What ho, chaps!

Short, sharp and shiny one today!

Todays word is..

Sisyphean [sis-y-phe-an]; pron sis-i-fee'an}
adjective

Definition:
Laborious, endless and futile. This term is sometimes capitalised.

Etymology:
Greek, from Sisyphus, king of Corinth. Derives from the story of the legendary king Sisyphus, who was condemned after his death to perpetually roll a huge stone to the top of the hill in Tartarus (a punishing world below Hades itself), only to have it roll back each time he neared his goal.

Usage:
Being my day off, I really ought to begin the Sisyphean task of cleaning up my apartment. You'd think that when I moved into my own place, I'd find it easier to keep tidy but it's really not the case!


Sorry it's not as good as my previous ones, but I have a massive headache at the moment. D:

Comments

[sasuran.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's a great one! I love this word. ^_^

[talengryph.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I was trying to find a word today to describe the futility of trying to fix the clutch on my car. And here I though the English language had failed me!

~Talen

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

It's the perfect word! If only people didn't usually think I meant 'sissy' in Sisyphean.

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Nonsense, great ordinary use of an extraordinary word.

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Excellent. And it makes me think of the version of that tale from the cartoon Ulysses 31. That used to freak me right out when I was a kid! It was an upsidedown version where he had to push the boulder into a hole, and one day he fell in and saw that the boulders broke up in the hole only to be reassembled by huge machines and sent rolling up to the lip of the hole again for him to push in! Argh! Deep stuff when you're 8.

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Greek mythology and LOLcats all in one?

YES