‘Whelmed’ really means ‘capsized’ - the over and under were added later for effect. But you can be consolate: consoled and comforted. And gruntled too.
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Hank Green
I can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but I can’t be whelmed.
Or, at least, I think theoretically I could but the way I have set up my life seems to have made it very difficult.
I would love to spend more of my life whelmed. Someone whelm me.
Or, at least, I think theoretically I could but the way I have set up my life seems to have made it very difficult.
I would love to spend more of my life whelmed. Someone whelm me.
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🚢 Whelmed = capsized
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😮 Overwhelmed = overloaded, like a ship capsizing
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😐 Underwhelmed = underloaded, opposite of overwhelmed
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🙂 Whelmed = loaded just right
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And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he"
We just have to find who we can map Hank to
John seems like too obvious a choice
#DarkTurn
Related to the word “ejected” (thrown out) I guess.
From said dictionary: a "Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to throw, impel.'" It purportedly forms all or parts of abject, eject, jet, object, project, reject... etc. But also, enema?
https://tinyurl.com/2burhehf
my life got whelmed :
turned upside down 🎶
Then, overwhelmed is too much and underwhelmed too little of something.
What does being "over capsized" mean?
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Boats which have capsized can either float or sink, and a boat can also sink without capsizing.
over-(w)helmed
Feeling quite gruntled. 😌
Watch Graham Norton with Chris Martin, Michael Macntyre and Rosamund Pike, the source of this entire conversation, initiated by a routine that MM does about words.
So gruntled reversed its meaning.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruntle
"Let's get combobulated and see where we're at"
"I think they can in Europe!"
Does that mean it's correct?
Way to go Plum!