Every word is a fossil.
Dig.

This is not a dictionary. It is a museum, archive, and excavation engine for human language.

Clarity

Nice once meant foolish. Awful once meant awe-inspiring. A gallery of complete inversions.

Extinct worldviews still carried, unnoticed, in ordinary sentences.

Words where an ancient sensory metaphor migrated from ear to eye.

Words whose imagined pasts have proven stronger than their real ones.