List of 328 Words That Came From Shakespeare
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Want to find examples of English words from the Bard's classic plays? Take a look at this list of such terms. In this collection of terms you'll find English words that came from Shakespeare.
| academe | fairyland | marketable | savage |
| accessible | fanged | militarist | savagery |
| accommodation | far-off | mimic | schoolboy |
| addiction | fashionable | misgiving | scrubbed |
| admirable | fashionmonger | misplaced | scuffle |
| aerial | fat-witted | misquote | seamy |
| airless | fathomless | mockable | self-abuse |
| amazement | featureless | monumental | shipwrecked |
| anchovy | fiendlike | moonbeam | shooting star |
| apostrophe | fishify | mortifying | shudder |
| arch-villain | fitful | motionless | silliness |
| arouse | fixture | mountaineer | slugabed |
| assassination | flowery | multitudinous | softhearted |
| auspicious | fly-bitten | neglect | spectacled |
| bandit | footfall | negotiate | spilth |
| barefaced | foppish | never-ending | spleenful |
| baseless | foregone | newsmonger | sportive |
| batty | fortune-teller | nimble-footed | squabble |
| beachy | foulmouthed | noiseless | stealthy |
| bedabble | freezing | obscene | stillborn |
| bedroom | fretful | ode | submerge |
| belongings | frugal | offenseful | successful |
| besmirch | full-grown | offenseless | suffocating |
| bethump | fullhearted | operate | supervise |
| birthplace | futurity | oppugnancy | suspicious |
| bloodstained | gallantry | outbreak | tanling |
| bloodsucking | generous | outdare | tardiness |
| bloody | gentlefolk | outscold | time-honored |
| blusterer | gloomy | outsell | tortive |
| braggartism | glow | outtalk | traditional |
| brisky | gnarled | outweigh | tranquil |
| bump | go-between | overblown | transcendence |
| buzzer | gravel-blind | overcredulous | unaccommodated |
| castigate | green-eyed | overgrowth | unappeased |
| catlike | gust | overpay | unaware |
| changeful | half-blooded | overpower | unchanging |
| characterless | heartsore | overrate | unclaimed |
| cheap | hint | overview | uncomfortable |
| circumstantial | hobnail | pageantry | uncurl |
| clangor | homely | palmy | undervalue |
| cold-blooded | honey-tongued | passado | undress |
| coldhearted | hornbook | paternal | undress |
| compact | hostile | pebbled | unearthly |
| comply | hot-blooded | pedant | uneducated |
| compromise | howl | pedantical | unfool |
| consanguineous | hunchbacked | pendulous | unfrequented |
| countless | hurly | perplex | ungoverned |
| courtship | hurry | perusal | ungrown |
| critic | idle-headed | pignut | unhelpful |
| critical | ill-tempered | pious | unhidden |
| cruelhearted | ill-used | plumpy | unlicensed |
| dauntless | impartial | posture | unmitigated |
| dawn | impede | premeditated | unmusical |
| defeat | imploratory | priceless | unpolluted |
| denote | import | profitless | unpublished |
| depositary | inauspicious | protester | unquestionable |
| dexterously | indirection | published | unquestioned |
| disgraceful | indistinguishable | quarrelsome | unreal |
| dishearten | inducement | radiance | unrivaled |
| dislocate | informal | rascally | unscarred |
| distasteful | investment | rawboned | unscratched |
| distrustful | invitation | reclusive | unsolicited |
| domineering | invulnerable | refractory | unsullied |
| downstairs | jaded | reinforcement | unswayed |
| dwindle | juiced | reliance | untutored |
| educate | lackluster | remorseless | unvarnished |
| embrace | ladybird | reprieve | unwillingness |
| employer | lament | resolve | upstairs |
| employment | lapse | restoration | useful |
| enfranchisement | laughable | restraint | useless |
| engagement | leaky | retirement | valueless |
| enmesh | leapfrog | revokement | varied |
| enrapt | lewdster | revolting | varletry |
| enthrone | loggerhead | reword | vasty |
| epileptic | lonely | roadway | vulnerable |
| equivocal | lustihood | roguery | watchdog |
| eventful | lustrous | rose-cheeked | well-behaved |
| excitement | madcap | rose-lipped | well-bred |
| expedience | madwoman | rumination | well-educated |
| expertness | majestic | ruttish | well-read |
| exposure | malignancy | sanctimonious | widen |
| eyewink | manager | satisfying | zany |
