Or Robinese (or maybe you prefer the spelling Dick-tionary), whatever floats your boat. I wish people used all of these more often, they’re g-r-e-a-t. Including future slang + defenitions AND when it was first used for your pleasure!
Dick Grayson does NOT like affixes, and creates a-fix for them. Not all of these are opposites of an existing word though, and some are more punny than anything! In alphabetical order they are…
aster — a situation with good circumstance, a good positive experience. Opposite of disaster.
First used in: Schooled (01x05).
In a sentence: “If ‘dislike’ is the opposite of ‘like’, is ‘disaster’ the opposite of ‘aster’?”
concerted* — not worried, calm and composed. Opposite of disconcerted.
First used in: Drop-Zone (01x04)
In a sentence: “This mosquito’s mighty concerted over your pain.”
chalant — displaying anxiety, interest or enthusiasm. Opposite of nonchalant.
First used in: Alpha Male (01x13)
In a sentence: “Be as chalant as you’d like.”
ject** — to get rid off what’s left.
First used in: Terminus (03x23)
In a sentence: “Now, let’s ject the rest!”
outfiltrate — infiltrating an infiltrator and disposing of them. Opposite of infiltrate.
First used in: Infiltrator (01x06)
In a sentence: “The infiltrators have been out-filtrated!”
renial — refusing to admit the truth or reality of something. Opposite of a being in denial.
First used in: The Pit (tie-in comic issue #11)
In a sentence: “You’re in denial Ra’s, ever though of being in ‘re-nial’ instead?”
sheveled — ordered, kept in a tidy way. Opposite of disheveled.
First used in: The Pendulum (tie-in comic issue #12)
In a sentence: “Really though he’d be a little less sheveled after that.”
turbed — being in a good state of mind or to be calm. Opposite of disturbed.
First used in: Welcome to Happy Harbour (01x03).
In a sentence: “Let’s see if you’re more turbed once we kick your can!”
traught — to stop worrying, to keep calm. Opposite of distraught.
First used in: Homefront (01x12)
In a sentence: “Well, get traught or get dead!”
whelmed*** — being level-headed or experiencing an event that falls neither below or above expectations. A “between word” for underwhelmed and overwhelmed.
First used in: Independence Day (01x01).
In a sentence: “You’re overwhelmed, Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn’t anyone ever just whelmed?”
Bart Allen comes from 40 years in the future, and brought back some slang**** (and derivatives) that now everyone uses. Surprisingly, there hasn’t been a time paradox because of this. Yet.
crash — something good, awesome and rebellious.
First time used: Bloodlines (02x06)
In a sentence: “That’s so crash!”
meat — a derogary term for a non-Reach organic lifeform.
First time used: Salvage (02x04)
In a sentence: “Half the meat at Comic-Con is from my era.”
mode — feeling down or being defeated.
First time used: Bloodlines (02x06)
In a sentence: “Feeling the mode.”
Thanks for reading, now go and unleash your inner Dick and Bart to infect your friends with some nonsense blather!
*this is already a real word, not something Dick made up. It is still counted in the DICKtionary though.
**plenty of prefixes would suffice for “ject” (e-, sub-, re-, de-), and all of them are used. Also, Wally was the one who said “ject” first!
***technically, the word “whelmed” serves the same purpose as “overwhelmed”, with the latter being a word that superseded the former. This is apparently NOT the case on Earth-16, as no one actually corrects Dick on it (not even Artemis, who’s a college-level English proffesor). Who knew?
****please note that these words have different meanings depending on who uses them. To the Reach, “crashing the mode” refers to a loss of control or failure. Humans have inverted it, and to them it means success. The future slang defenitions are from the human perspective and it’s thus why it’s reffered to Bart’s future slang.
