There have been a lot of words used to describe 2020 and users of Dictionary.com has chosen "unprecedented" as the Word of the Year.
"Unprecedented" beat out "pandemic" which was the Dictionary.com editor's choice for Word of the Year. Other top words receiving votes this year included "dumpster fire," "apocalyptic" and "pandemonium."
Editor John Kelly said of the word "unprecedented," "How better to describe 2020? This shows just how much we humans hunger to find the right word for trying times, how sensitive we are to language use -- and how not even a pandemic can put an end to that great, unifying pastime of complaining about our language pet peeves."
(ABC News)