'Existential' is dictionary.com's word of the year
World | Dec 02, 2019, 07:48 PM ISTClimate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel “existential” to Dictionary.com’s word of the year. The choice reflects months of high-stakes threats and crises, real and pondered, across the news, the world and throughout 2019.