tangential - a word that sounds more naughty than it is, also urbane

[scottobear]

tangential - what you have, after going to a nude beach.

seriously -

tangential \tan-JEN-shuhl\ adjective

1. Only slightly relevant to the matter in hand; digressive; divergent.

2. Merely touching.

3. Mathematics: Of or pertaining to the nature of a tangent.

From Latin tangent-, tangens, present participle of tangere (to touch).


urbane \ur-BAIN\, adjective:
Polished and smooth in manner; polite, refined, and elegant.

From Latin urbanus, "of a city," hence "refined, polished," from urbs, "city." The noun form is urbanity (pronounced \ur-BAN-ih-tee\).

Comments

[artemii.livejournal.com]

once i really did misspell it "tangenital", heh.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

do'h! close spellings are trouble!