headless

繼承自中古英語 heedles、hevedles，來自古英語 hēafodlēas (“無頭”)，等同head + -less。與荷蘭語 hoofdloos (“無頭”)、丹麥語 hovedløs (“無頭”)、瑞典語 huvudlös (“無頭”)、冰島語 höfuðlaus (“無頭”)等同源。

unheaded

站點的前端與其後面的平台完全分離的

How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?

無頭騎士如何追趕伊卡博德？

無頭的 天生沒有或不需要頭的

headless invertebrates

站點的前端與其後面的平台完全分離的

a headless nail;   a headless set screw

同類詞：rudderless

The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.

將軍死後，這支群龍無首的軍隊步履蹣跚、一事無成。

在沒有圖形使用者介面的情況下執行；在沒有任何附加輸出裝置（例如：顯示器）或輸入裝置（例如：鍵盤、滑鼠）的情況下執行

/redirect. Used for console redirection in headless servers.

2003，William Boswell，Inside Windows Server 2003，Addison-Wesley, →ISBN，頁 62:

Routers typically run headless, without a keyboard or monitor.

2007，Carla Schroder，Linux Networking Cookbook，O’Reilly Media, 出版於 2008, →ISBN，頁 47:

This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server[…]

2010，Charles Bell et al.，MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers，O'Reilly Media, →ISBN，頁 278:

If any one will rashly blame such his choice of old and unwonted words, him may I more justly blame and condemn, either of witless headiness in judging, or of headless hardiness in condemning.

1579, E. K. (Edward Kirke?), Notes on Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender

A headless shell doesn't have a flange.

“無頭”彈殼即沒有邊緣的彈殼。


high-rise

high-rise jeans


hippie

源自1953年，為通常帶貶義的 hipster 的變體。參見嬉皮的詞源。

hippier (comparative)
hippiest (superlative)

That dress looks very hippie.

The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.

他所寫的毒品使用，其實比嬉皮更偏向龐克：它不僅是關於致幻劑和大麻，還包括興奮劑、海洛因和藥丸，既是強迫症，也是一種逃避。

2011，Mike Marqusee，Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN:

You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.

你得理解，我在一家非常嬉皮的夜總會工作了好多年，而大多數員工甚至不喜歡《感恩的死者》樂隊。

2012，Christopher Lento，The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN，頁 126:

And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.

然後我發現了LSD，沒有比這更嬉皮的了。

2013，Ian Young，It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:

They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.

他們使用了一些不符合普遍標準的壓縮格式，而不是常見的RAR和ZIP。


handsome

繼承自中古英語 handsum、hondsom，等同於hand + -some。對照荷蘭語 handzaam、德國低地德語 handsaam。原意是指「容易處理和使用」，因此便出現了「合適的」和「靈巧的，聰明的」等含義（16世紀中期），並產生了表示欣賞的現代化含義（16世紀晚期）。

more handsome (comparative)
handsomer (comparative)
most handsome (superlative)
handsomest (superlative)

外表英俊、帥氣、有吸引力，好看

On the opposite side of the street, on the corner, is the city hall, a very handsome building of brick and stone.

1916，On H.R. 4683, site for post-office building at Chicago, Ill，頁 117:

The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

1917，Anton Chekhov，譯者 Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories，Project Gutenberg, →ISBN，頁 71:

Often, human mortals describe their visits to the Tuatha's [places] in similar terms: they were great bright places, occupied by exceedingly handsome men and women, that sported wonderful crystal chairs, inexhaustible supplies of mead or ale ...

2006，Richard Leviton，The Gods in Their Cities，iUniverse, →ISBN，頁 44:

That is one handsome tree you've got there.


heavier

heavy 的比較級形式。


heaviest

heavy的最高級形式。


happier

happy 的比較級形式。

This world-wide travel organisation recently attained its centenary, and under happier conditions than those prevailing at the present time the event would doubtless have been celebrated worthily.

这一世界性旅游组织最近迎来了它的百年华诞，如果能处在比现在更好的条件，这一盛事无疑会得到隆重的庆祝。

1941 November，“Notes and News: The Centenary of Cook's”, in Railway Magazine，頁 513:


happiest

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-happiest.wav

happy的最高級形式。


histrionic

more histrionic (comparative)
most histrionic (superlative)


hither

源自古英語 hider，源自原始日耳曼語 *hidrê。和拉丁語 citer 同源。

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.

在善與惡這一邊的事物和生物中，可以非常清楚地感受到本質的非自我。

1954，Aldous Huxley，The Doors of Perception，Chatto & Windus，頁 30:


holomorphic

The iteration of holomorphic maps of one variable is one of the most lively fields of current mathematical research. Since its beginning in the twenties of this century, the theory of holomorphic endomorphisms of the Riemann sphere (= rational functions) has become well developed.

1998, Stefan-M. Heinemann, Julia Sets in Cⁿ, Hartje Kriete, Progress in Holomorphic Dynamics, Addison Wesley Longman, page 159,

A holomorphic 1-form on X is closed, and so
#*:: 0=dη₁=df and η₂.

1998, Robert Friedman, Algebraic Surfaces and Holomorphic Vector Bundles, Springer, page 303,

The theory of holomorphic dynamical systems is a subject of increasing interest in mathematics, both for its challenging problems and for its connections with other branches of pure and applied mathematics. A holomorphic dynamical system is the datum of a complex variety and a holomorphic object (such as a self-map or a vector field) acting on it.

2010, Graziano Gentili, Jacques Guenot, Giorgio Patrizio, Holomorphic Dynamical Systems: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School, Springer, page v,


homesick

more homesick (comparative)
most homesick (superlative)

nostalgic

(常與 for 搭配使用) 思鄉的

(常與 for 搭配使用) 思鄉的


hexadecimal

源自1952年，由 hexadeca- + decimal 組成；更多訊息請見英語維基百科條目。

以十六進位／十六進制表達的


honest

honester (comparative)
more honest (comparative)
honestest (superlative)
most honest (superlative)


honorific

more honorific (comparative)
most honorific (superlative)

/ˌɒnəˈɹɪfɪk/

/ˌɑːnəˈɹɪfɪk/


honoured

more honoured (comparative)
most honoured (superlative)


horny

hornier (comparative)
horniest (superlative)

具角的；角質的，角質物製的

（男子）性興奮的，慾火中燒的


hot

hotter (comparative)
hottest (superlative)


invertible

可逆的，用于矩阵或者函数


invidious

more invidious (comparative)
most invidious (superlative)


ionizing

more ionizing (comparative)
most ionizing (superlative)


irksome

more irksome (comparative)
most irksome (superlative)


irrecognizable

more irrecognizable (comparative)
most irrecognizable (superlative)

/ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/

/ɪɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/

(古舊，罕用) 難以辨認的

The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets.

1850，Thomas Carlyle，“The Stump Orator”, in Latter Day Pamphlets:

[T]here remains no trace of their having ever existed—outside of course of the family names which are now preserved, though some of them in an almost irrecognizable form.

1902年March15日，“Judge Endlich on Early Life in Berks”, in Reading Eagle，USA, retrieved 2010-08-26，頁 11:

The loamy ground on which I lay, the scattered fragments of the cairn beside me, and the rocks and junipers, were irrecognizable as if they had belonged to some other planet than ours.

c. 1933，Clark Ashton Smith，“The Light from Beyond”, in The White Sybil and Other Stories，第2005版，頁 142:


irremediable

more irremediable (comparative)
most irremediable (superlative)


irreparable

源自中古法語 irréparable < 古法語 < 拉丁語 irreparabilis，等價於ir- + reparable。

more irreparable (comparative)
most irreparable (superlative)

/ɪˈɹɛp(ə)ɹəbəl/

不能修復的；不能挽回的，無法彌補的

It was impoſſible that the queen of France [Marie Antoinette] ſhould not be deeply affected by a conteſt, which ſo cloſely involved her neareſt and deareſt connections, and threatened ſo immediate and perhaps irreparable a breach of the harmony and friendſhip ſubſiſting between them.

法國王后［瑪麗·安托瓦內特］不可能不深受這場爭端影響——此事不僅牽涉她至親至愛之人，更可能立即造成彼此現存和諧情誼無可彌補的裂痕。

1787，“The History of Europe”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Years 1784 and 1785，卷 XXVII, London: Printed by J[ames] Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, →OCLC, chapter VIII，頁 134，列 1:


irresolvable

more irresolvable (comparative)
most irresolvable (superlative)


incomparable

more incomparable (comparative)
most incomparable (superlative)


inexorable

more inexorable (comparative)
most inexorable (superlative)

/ɪnˈɛksɔɹəbəl/


inexpugnable

古典借詞，源自拉丁語 inexpugnābilis。形態上可以分析為in- + expugn + -able。

more inexpugnable (comparative)
most inexpugnable (superlative)

不能攻佔的；不能駁倒的；堅不可摧的

My one hope of the world, my inexpugnable consolation in looking at the miseries of the world, is that this is altering.

1840，Thomas Carlyle，Heroes and Hero Worship:

It crept into one's mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and presently one shivered and wanted to go indoors...

1911，H. G. Wells，The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories:

This seemed to be an inexpugnable refuge, where we could live untroubled and learn to know each other."


instructive

more instructive (comparative)
most instructive (superlative)

didactic

教育性的；有益的；啟發性的

educative

教育性的；有益的；啟發性的

informative

教育性的；有益的；啟發性的

informatory

教育性的；有益的；啟發性的

教育性的；有益的；啟發性的

Well, that was an instructive lesson.

嗯，這是一個有啟發性的教訓。

Some commentators have suggested that the activity represented by WallStreetBets and Trumpism are part of the same populist, anti-elite phenomenon, but if Trumpism in general is instructive at all here, it’s as a reminder that self-described anti-elite movements can, in fact, turn out to be much more complicated than that.

一些評論家認為，WallStreetBets所代表的活動和特朗普主義是同一民粹主義、反精英現象的一部分，但如果特朗普主義一般來說在這裡有指導意義的話，那就是提醒人們，自稱的反精英運動事實上可能比這複雜得多。

2021年January29日，John Herrman，“Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times:


insuppressible

more insuppressible (comparative)
most insuppressible (superlative)


intemperate

more intemperate (comparative)
most intemperate (superlative)


ignominious

源自法語或古法語 ignominieux，源自拉丁語 ignōminiōsus (“可耻的”)，源自ignōminia (“名誉扫地”)，源自ig- (“不”) + nomen (“名誉”)（前缀为in-的同化形式）。 就词形分析为ignominy + -ious。

more ignominious (comparative)
most ignominious (superlative)

The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come.

The golden eagle, which glittered in the front of the legion, was the object of their fondest devotion; nor was it esteemed less impious than it was ignominious, to abandon that sacred ensign in the hour of danger.

1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1—pt ii:

And it came to pass that they took him; and his name was Nehor; and they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti, and there he was caused, or rather did acknowledge, between the heavens and the earth, that what he had taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious death.

Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.

1902，Thomas Ebenezer Webb，The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence，頁 242:

For Roy Hodgson it was a desperate and ignominious way to end his four years as England manager. Whatever else happened in that time, his period in office will probably always be remembered for the full-on humiliation that accompanied this defeat and the knowledge it will rank among the more infamous results in the history of the national team.

2016年June27日，Daniel Taylor，“England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian，London:

And yet it also seems that Khashoggi avoided anything as ignominious as personal bankruptcy.

2017年June7日，Adam Lusher，“Adnan Khashoggi: the 'whoremonger' whose arms deals funded a playboy life of decadence and 'pleasure wives'”, in The Independent，London:


ill-disposed

more ill-disposed (comparative)
most ill-disposed (superlative)


interchangeable

/ɪntɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒəbl̩/

[ɪɾ̃ɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒəbl̩]

Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts was a breakthrough for modern manufacturing. Prior to that, each part had to be made custom.

伊莱·惠特尼发明的可互换零件是现代制造业的一大突破。在此之前，每个零件都必须定制。

Sometimes the same words mean opposite things. Sometimes the opposite is true. Shock absorbers are called shocks. Slow down and slow up are interchangeable.

1997，George Carlin，Brain Droppings，New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL，頁 104:

The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England.

2014年September16日，Ian Jack，“Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:


illiquid

more illiquid (comparative)
most illiquid (superlative)


ineffectual

more ineffectual (comparative)
most ineffectual (superlative)


inquisitive

想问的；想知道的；好追根究底的；好奇的


insensitive

more insensitive (comparative)
most insensitive (superlative)


interstellar

It can take centuries for light to travel interstellar distances.

光要传播星际距离可能需要几个世纪的时间。

Space is littered with interstellar particles.

Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.

2012，Chinle Miller，In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks，第Kindle版:


intrepid

more intrepid (comparative)
most intrepid (superlative)


intuitive

more intuitive (comparative)
most intuitive (superlative)


inventive

more inventive (comparative)
most inventive (superlative)


inaudible

Dogs can hear this whistle, but for people it is inaudible.

狗可以听到这个哨音，但是人听不到。

At first his voice was almost inaudible; but soon the spirit mastered the body, and his hollow but distinct tones gained a supernatural strength.

1834，L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]，章號 XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […]，卷 III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC，頁 267:


hypaethral

/hʌɪˈpiːθɹəl/


hyperthermal

more hyperthermal (comparative)
most hyperthermal (superlative)


lawless

more lawless (comparative)
most lawless (superlative)


lightheaded

more lightheaded (comparative)
most lightheaded (superlative)


lightsome

more lightsome (comparative)
most lightsome (superlative)


lactational

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-lactational.wav


lordly

繼承自中古英語 lordly、lordlich，來自古英語 hlāfordlīċ (“貴族；高貴；貴重”)，等同於lord + -ly。
副詞來自中古英語 lordly、lordely、lordliche。

lordlier (comparative)
more lordly (comparative)
lordliest (superlative)
most lordly (superlative)

Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.

向我们展现您的威严：证明您可以命令人民并让他们服从。

But they are the peers of the Queensland Parliament, and, having no lordly robes, must approach the Old Country model as closely as possible.

1880，John Nichols，The Gentleman’s Magazine，卷 248，頁 60:

[I]n that some form of duty and sacrifice (here, participation in the 1848 Revolution and a recognition of his lordly duty) is not only beneficially character-forming but also leads ultimately to a condition which is 'sublime'.

2006，Steve Wharton，Screening Reality，頁 104:

Samson, in reply to this, says, “If you are not lordly, nor value your lordly title, as you tell me, and I trust in truth and sincerity, shall I call you a phoenix?

2011，Thomas Smith, C. Matthew McMahon, Therese B. McMahon，Select Memoirs of the English and Scottish Divines，頁 282:

[H]e's still got his lordly habits, and more so since coming out of the war as a general.' 'A colonel, Sammy,' said Rachel. 'Same thing, good as,' said Sammy. 'Boots, of course, does wear his lordly crown with style,' said Rachel. 'Don't I know it?

2011，Mary Jane Staples，Appointment at the Palace: An Adams Family Saga Novel，頁 275:

He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 5:25:

It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;

1849，Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë]，“The First Blue-stocking”, in Shirley. A Tale. […]，卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC，頁 77:

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.

1897，Bram Stoker，“Mina Harker’s Journal”, in Dracula，New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC，頁s 409–410:


leaky

leakier (comparative)
leakiest (superlative)


kinematic

more kinematic (comparative)
most kinematic (superlative)


limpid

more limpid (comparative)
most limpid (superlative)


lineate

拉丁語 lineatus，lineare (“使變為一條直線”) 的過去分詞。

more lineate (comparative)
most lineate (superlative)


leftmost

Start with the leftmost one and work towards the right.

從最左邊的那個開始，然後向右走。


lambent

more lambent (comparative)
most lambent (superlative)


legislative

more legislative (comparative)
most legislative (superlative)

a legislative act


legit

more legit (comparative)
most legit (superlative)

legitimate 的截斷形式：合法的，适法的，正当的


lurid

more lurid (comparative)
most lurid (superlative)


lenient

more lenient (comparative)
most lenient (superlative)


knowledgeable

more knowledgeable (comparative)
most knowledgeable (superlative)

a knowledgeable man

Let all knowledgeable people present what they say, write and show.


leucocratic

more leucocratic (comparative)
most leucocratic (superlative)

（岩石）淺色的，表明其成分90%以上是長英質礦物

Occasionally the opinion is advanced that the formation of the leucocratic, granitic-granodioritic portions of the heterogeneous in-situ migmatites is due to a metasomatic process, i.e., to the addition of “emanations” from depth.

2013，H.G.F. Winkler，Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks，頁 325:


litigant

派生自法語 litigant，來自中古法語，來自拉丁語 lītigāns。

more litigant (comparative)
most litigant (superlative)

the parties litigant


loaded

more loaded (comparative)
most loaded (superlative)


loathsome

more loathsome (comparative)
most loathsome (superlative)


lobster

繼承自中古英語 loppestere、lopster，來自古英語 loppestre (“龍蝦，像蜘蛛的生物”)，源頭不確定。有些人認為是拉丁語 lō̆custa (“蚱蜢，蝗蟲”)訛變 + 古英語陰性代理後綴-estre。在拉丁語短語lō̆custa marīna（字面意思為「海蚱蜢」）用來表示一種甲殼動物（蝦子或龍蝦）。
或者是來自古英語 lobbe、loppe (“蜘蛛”) + 古英語陰性代理後綴-estre，等同於lop + -ster。

more lobster (comparative)
most lobster (superlative)

red as a lobster

紅色的，用於形容曬傷的皮膚

紅色的，用於形容曬傷的皮膚


libelous

more libelous (comparative)
most libelous (superlative)


liberticide

借自法語 liberticide，大約於法國大革命時期創造。等價於 liberty + -cide。

[…] by aſſembling at her houſe, in ſecret council, the principal chiefs of that conſpiracy, and by keeping up a correſpondence tending to facilitate their liberticide deſigns.

1798, translation of Madame Roland, An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, First American Edition—Corrected, Volume I, A. Van Hook (publisher), pages 151–152:

The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual.

1811 January 26, Thomas Jefferson, letter to M. D. Destutt Tracy, in Thomas Jefferson Randolph (editor), Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume IV, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (publishers, 1829), page 166:

M. Labriffe is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and has, of course, voted for the liberticide laws.

1823, Public Characters of All Nations, Volume II, Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (publisher), page 502:


licentious

more licentious (comparative)
most licentious (superlative)


lief

繼承自中古英語 lef、leve、leef，繼承自古英語 lēof，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *leub，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *leubaz。
同源詞包括薩特弗里斯蘭語 ljo、ljoo、西弗里斯蘭語 leaf、荷蘭語 lief、德國低地德語 leev、德語 lieb、瑞典語、新挪威語 ljuv、哥特語 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (liufs)、俄語 любо́вь (ljubóvʹ)、波蘭語 luby。
副詞可對比德語 lieber、荷蘭語 liever (“寧願，更喜歡”)。

liefer (comparative)
liever (comparative)
liefest (superlative)
lievest (superlative)


moribund

/ˈmɔːɹɪbʌnd/

（企业、机构、文化）行将灭亡的，即将关闭的，濒于崩溃的


mossy

mossier (comparative)
mossiest (superlative)


mother-of-all

/ˈmʌðəɹəvˌɔːl/


nonageing

未时效（nonaging的另一写法）


necessary

/ˈnɛsəˌsɛɹi/


nonchalant

more nonchalant (comparative)
most nonchalant (superlative)


modifiable

源自法語 modifiable。By surface analysis, modify + -able。

more modifiable (comparative)
most modifiable (superlative)

可修正的；可變更的；可修飾的；可緩和的


negative

more negative (comparative)
most negative (superlative)


nervous

more nervous (comparative)
most nervous (superlative)


nilpotent

來自nil (“沒有任何”) + potent (“有冪”)，字面意義即「有零冪次」。兩個字根分別來自拉丁語 nil 和 potens。由美國數學家本傑明·皮爾斯（Benjamin Peirce）於1870年與idempotent一起創造，使用於結合代數等領域。

The rest of this book is devoted to determining the conjugacy classes and centralizers of nilpotent elements in L(G) and unipotent elements in G, where G is an exceptional algebraic group of type E₈,E₇, E₆, F₄ or G₂ over an algebraically closed field K of characteristic p. This chapter contains statements of the main results for nilpotent elements.

2012, Martin W. Liebeck, Gary M. Seitz, Unipotent and Nilpotent Classes in Simple Algebraic Groups and Lie Algebras, American Mathematical Society, page 129,


madder

來自中古英語 mader、madere、mædere，來自古英語 mædere、mæddre、mædre，來自原始日耳曼語 *madarǭ（對照瑞典語 madra、古諾爾斯語 / 冰島語 maðra），來自原始印歐語 *modʰro-，與原始斯拉夫語 *modrъ (“藍色”)同源，和對照愛爾蘭語 madar (“茜草”)、拉脫維亞語 madara (“茜草”)。


meritorious

more meritorious (comparative)
most meritorious (superlative)

/ˌmɛɹɪˈtɔɹi.əs/

/ˌmɛɹɪˈtoʊɹi.əs/


masterful

more masterful (comparative)
most masterful (superlative)


mulberry

來自中古英語 Mulbery、molberye、murberie，部分來自古英語 mōrberġe (“桑”)和中古低地德語 mulbere (“桑”)。對照荷蘭語 moerbezie、moerbei (“桑”)、德語 Maulbeere (“桑”)。

more mulberry (comparative)
most mulberry (superlative)

深紫色和紅色之間的色調。


neurohumoral

神经介质的，神经体液的，神经（和）激素的


middle-class

more middle-class (comparative)
most middle-class (superlative)


meaningful

more meaningful (comparative)
most meaningful (superlative)


meaningless

more meaningless (comparative)
most meaningless (superlative)


monstrous

繼承自中古英語 monstrous，來自古法語 monstrueuse、monstrüos，來自拉丁語 mōnstrōsus。對照monstruous。

more monstrous (comparative)
most monstrous (superlative)

醜惡的，醜陋的；駭人聽聞的；極端荒謬的

So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

c. 1596–1599，William Shakespeare，“The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio)，London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

a monstrous height

Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.

1901年December20日，“The Ringing of Plants”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record，卷 4, 期 21，頁 663:

He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.

1650，Jeremy Taylor，The rule and exercises of holy living:

與神話中怪物有關的，似怪物的；充滿怪物的

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

1637，John Milton，“Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […]，London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], 出版於 1646, →OCLC:

非常奇怪的，奇妙的，幻想的


mind-blowing

more mind-blowing (comparative)
most mind-blowing (superlative)

給人印象極深刻的，令人難以置信的


numeric

more numeric (comparative)
most numeric (superlative)


metaphysical

more metaphysical (comparative)
most metaphysical (superlative)


nuptial

借自拉丁語 nūptiālis。

more nuptial (comparative)
most nuptial (superlative)


medical

借自中古法語 medical，源自中世紀拉丁語 medicālis，源自拉丁語 medicus。代替古英語 lǣċe (“醫生”)，其與冰島語 læknir (“醫生”)同源。

more medical (comparative)
most medical (superlative)

medical doctor; medical student

Do you have any medical experience?

你有過醫學方面的經驗嗎？

The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.

2013年June21日，Karen McVeigh，“US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly，卷 189, 期 2，頁 10:

medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment

藥用大麻；藥用大麻；醫療

A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.

假如疾病沒有讓你先死去，那麼昂貴的治療費用會讓你破產。

medical examinaton; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis

醫學檢查；醫療豁免；病史；病史檔案；醫學診斷

medical ward


moonlit

來自moon + lit。對照薩特弗里斯蘭語 mouneljoacht (“月光照耀的”)、西弗里斯蘭語 moanneljocht (“月光照耀的”)、荷蘭語 maanverlicht (“月光照耀的”)、丹麥語 månelys (“月光照耀的”)、瑞典語 månljus (“月光照耀的”)。

more moonlit (comparative)
most moonlit (superlative)


mega

從詞頭mega-衍生出來的。


mythological

/ˌmɪθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/


melancholy

繼承自中古英語 malencolie，來自古法語 melancolie，來自古希臘語 μελαγχολία (melankholía，“atrabiliousness”)，來自μέλας (mélas)、μελαν- (melan-，“黑色，黑暗，陰暗”) + χολή (kholḗ，“膽汁”)。對照拉丁語 ātra bīlis (“黑膽汁”)。形容詞用法是中古英語的創新，可能受到後綴-y、-ly的影響。

melancholly (alternative)
melancholie (alternative)
melancholious (alternative)
more melancholy (comparative)
most melancholy (superlative)

Melancholy people don't talk much.

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”

1922，Ben Travers，章號 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

And then the band slowed the tempo / And the music gets you down / Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah, ah / It was the same old song / With a melancholy sound / Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah, ah

1981，Greg Kihn, Steve Wright，“The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)”, in RocKihnRoll，演出者 The Greg Kihn Band:


timorous

more timorous (comparative)
most timorous (superlative)

恐惧的，害怕的，胆小的。


protestant

more protestant (comparative)
most protestant (superlative)

a protestant effort

protestant work ethic


scientific

借自中古法語 scientifique，源自中世紀拉丁語 scientificus (“與科學有關的”)。

more scientific (comparative)
most scientific (superlative)

具有科学方法的性质的，或与科学方法相一致的。

符合现代科学的程序、方法、行为和公认的惯例的。


plaintive

源自中古英語 pleintif, plentyff ← 法語 plaintif (“悲痛的”) ← plainte (“怨，痛”)；參見plaint，plaintiff。

more plaintive (comparative)
most plaintive (superlative)

伤心的，悲哀的，忧郁的。

a typically plaintive song from Radiohead

來自Radiohead的一首典型的傷感歌曲


operational

more operational (comparative)
most operational (superlative)

/ɔpɜˈɹeɪʃənəl/


obscurant

大約於 1793-1799 年輸入英語：源自德語 Obskurant 和法語 obscurant, 源自古典拉丁語 obscūrant-，obscūrāns 的詞根， obscūrāre (“模糊；隱藏”) 的現在分詞， 源自 obscūrus (“黑暗的”)。

more obscurant (comparative)
most obscurant (superlative)


plosive

more plosive (comparative)
plosiver (comparative)
most plosive (superlative)
plosivest (superlative)


phony

:可能源自 fawney（“骗子用的镀了金的黄铜环”）(1781) < 爱尔兰语 fáinne（“环”）。

phonier (comparative)
phoniest (superlative)


perfectionist

more perfectionist (comparative)
most perfectionist (superlative)

perfectionistic parents

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:perfectionist。

追求完善論或和完善論相關的


profane

卑賤的, 污穢的, 可鄙的。


okay

more okay (comparative)
okayer (comparative)
most okay (superlative)
okayest (superlative)

Do you think it's okay to stay here for the night?

你覺得在這裡過夜可以嗎？

The soup was okay, but the dessert was excellent.

湯還可以，但甜點非常棒。

He's not feeling well now, but he should be okay after some rest.

他現在不太舒服，不過休息一下應該就沒事了。


perfunctory

more perfunctory (comparative)
most perfunctory (superlative)


profligate

more profligate (comparative)
most profligate (superlative)

/ˈpɹɒflɪɡət/

/ˈpɹɑːflɪɡət/

/ˈpɹɑːflɪɡeɪt/


provisional

/pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/


ovoviviparous

/ˌəʊvəʊvɪˈvɪpəɹəs/

/ˌoʊvoʊvɪˈvɪpəɹəs/


prejudiced

more prejudiced (comparative)
most prejudiced (superlative)


proletarian

more proletarian (comparative)
most proletarian (superlative)


premedication

The retrospective study revealed that, in the acetaminophen group, the mean value of postmedication body temperature (BT) was significantly higher than that of the premedication BT.

回顾性研究显示，对乙酰氨基酚组用药后体温（BT）平均值明显高于用药前体温。

2015年October3日，“Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Are Better than Acetaminophen on Fever Control at Acute Stage of Fracture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


paleolithic

These laws are absolutely paleolithic.

這些法律絕對都已經老掉牙了。


promiscuous

:< 拉丁語 prōmiscuus （“混合的，不分开的”） < prō （“前”） + misceō （“混合”）。

more promiscuous (comparative)
most promiscuous (superlative)

随意的，恣意的，不加选择的


outdated

more outdated (comparative)
most outdated (superlative)


peritoneal

醫生講話語速快時，患者需要注意，勿聽錯 peritoneal (“腹膜的”)、peroneal (“腓骨的”) 以及 perineal (“會陰的”) 等發音類似的詞彙。

After opening the bladder (incision extending 1 inch pubically from peritoneal fold) the prostate was was injected deeply with 1 per cent. cocain while the pericapsular region was injected with the 1 : 400 novocain solution.

打开膀胱后（切口从腹膜皱襞向耻骨方向延伸1英寸），向前列腺深处注射1%可卡因，同时向囊周围区域注射1：400奴佛卡因溶液。

1914，Transactions of the Section on Genito-Urinary Diseases of the American Medical Association，頁 80:


quadrangular

more quadrangular (comparative)
most quadrangular (superlative)


pulmonic

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pulmonic.wav


quadrilingual

Part of the rationale for this quadrilingual language policy is the desire to preserve 'Asian values', viewed as inherent in Asian languages, in the face of 'Western values' associated with globalisation and the use of English.

這種四語語言政策的部分理由是，面對與全球化和英語使用相關的「西方價值觀」，希望保留被視為亞洲語言固有的「亞洲價值觀」。

2019，Li Huang，James Lambert，“Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI，頁 3:

（文字）用四種語言寫成的


politic

more politic (comparative)
most politic (superlative)


punctate

源自拉丁語 punctum (“點”)。參見 point 和 punctuate。

more punctate (comparative)
most punctate (superlative)

Head and pronotum densely punctate and predominantly opaque, punctures on upper half of head mostly contiguous and without extensive shiny interspaces […]
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

Keys to the Nearctic species of Pseudomyrmex


participial

借自拉丁語 participiālis，源自 participium (“分詞”)。


puffy

puffier (comparative)
puffiest (superlative)

puffy breath

A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.

一個喘著粗氣、穿著運動服的胖男人在一角慢跑。

以誇張的表現和自負的方式說話或寫作的。

There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.

2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 20:


punitive

more punitive (comparative)
most punitive (superlative)


perseverant

繼承自中古英語 perseveraunt，源自中古法語 perseverant，源自拉丁語 persevērāns，persevērō 的現在分詞。

more perseverant (comparative)
most perseverant (superlative)

/pəsɪˈvɪəɹənt/


panegyric

more panegyric (comparative)
most panegyric (superlative)

/ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/

/ˌpænəˈd͡ʒaɪɹɪk/


panegyrical

more panegyrical (comparative)
most panegyrical (superlative)

The days of description (personal and panegyrical) are passing rapidly away.

1831，L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]，章號 XII, in Romance and Reality. […]，卷 II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，頁 167:

Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world"--a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.

1900，Thomas Anderton，A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham:


oozy

oozier (comparative)
ooziest (superlative)


quantum

借自晚期拉丁語 quantum。


passage

繼承自中古英語，源自古法語 passage，源自 passer (“通過”)。

不到一岁，但已经离开鸟巢，獨自生活

Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.

不到一岁的离巢红尾鹰是猎鹰者们的首选，因为这些幼鸟尚未发育出成年鸟的行为，所以训练起来不会那么困难。


purplish

more purplish (comparative)
most purplish (superlative)


openable

more openable (comparative)
most openable (superlative)


protectionist

源自法語 protectionniste。By surface analysis, protection + -ist。

more protectionist (comparative)
most protectionist (superlative)

This is because most member countries still hold a very much protectionist stance when it comes to the service sector.

这是因为大多数成员国对服务业仍然持强烈的保护主义立场。

2008，International Transport Forum, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, SourceOECD (Online service)，17th International ITF/OECD Symposium on Transport Economics and Policy: benefiting from globalisation : transport sector contribution and policy challenges : introductory reports and summary of discussion : 25-27 October 2006, Berlin, →ISBN，頁 171:

The "national security" grounds were gauzy at best; the 232 tariffs were classically protectionist.

“国家安全”的理由充其量也只是模棱兩可的；232关税是典型的保护主义。

2020年June23日，John Bolton，The Room Where It Happened, →ISBN，頁 185:


purposive

more purposive (comparative)
most purposive (superlative)


rabid

狂熱的; 疯狂的
參見：rabies


pastoral

/ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/


reciprocating

有一個或多個前後和上下運動的活塞

其機械裝置依靠往復運動的

reciprocating behavior


pussy

pussier (comparative)
pussiest (superlative)


pussy

more pussy (comparative)
most pussy (superlative)


photovoltaic

But the truly impressive part of this entry is the photovoltaic film that has been applied to the platform and entrance roofs (all 272 square metres of it). It is a UK first for the railway, and is expected to generate 36kW of electricity to meet the needs of the station itself and to feed the surplus back to the grid.

2021年September22日，“National Rail Awards 2021: Denmark Hill Station Enhancement Project”, in RAIL，期 940，頁 39:


patelliform

more patelliform (comparative)
most patelliform (superlative)


putrescent

more putrescent (comparative)
most putrescent (superlative)


revulsive

more revulsive (comparative)
most revulsive (superlative)


required

more required (comparative)
most required (superlative)


quixotic

:源自堂吉诃德（Don Quixote）的姓名，加后缀 -ic 形容词化。

more quixotic (comparative)
most quixotic (superlative)

想入非非的，不实际的，异想天开的


pyogenic

more pyogenic (comparative)
most pyogenic (superlative)


resectable

more resectable (comparative)
most resectable (superlative)


rodomontade

more rodomontade (comparative)
most rodomontade (superlative)

/ˌɹɑ.dəˌmɑnˈtɑd/


rhetoric

繼承自中古英語 rethorik，來自拉丁語 rēthoricus、rhētoricus，來自古希臘語 ῥητορῐκός (rhētorĭkós)。


rummy

rummier (comparative)
rummiest (superlative)

a rummy flavour

“You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”

1920，P. G. Wodehouse，Jill the Reckless，頁 28:


pomegranate

石榴（意思1）
石榴樹（意思2）
名詞衍生自中古英語 pome-garnet、pome-garnete、pome garnate、pome granat、pome-granate (“石榴果；石榴樹；石榴種子(?)”) [以及其他形式]，來自盎格魯-諾曼語 pome gernate、pomme gernette、中古法語 pomme granade、pomme granate、pomme grenade、和古法語 pome grenade、pome grenate、pomme grenate [以及其他形式] (現代法語 grenade)，可能來自意大利語 pomogranato、pomo granato (雖然是後來才被證實)，和其他可能的說法：
* 來自意大利語 pomo (“果實、梨果；蘋果”) + 拉丁語 (mālum) grānātum、(mālo)grānātum (“石榴”)；或
* 直接來自中世紀拉丁語 pōmum garnātum、pōmum grānātum (“石榴”)，來自拉丁語 pōmum (“果實；果樹”) + grānātum (“石榴”)。Pōmum的源頭可能衍生自原始印歐語 *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“脫下”) (摘除植物的意思上)，來自*h₂epó (“離開；關閉”) + *h₁em- (“分發；拿”)；然而grānātum是衍生自grānātus (“有一些穀物或種子”)，來自grānum (“穀物、種子、小果仁”) (可能源頭來自原始印歐語 *ǵerh₂- (“成熟，老成”) + *-nós (動詞性形容詞後綴)) + -ātus (表示從名詞擁有某種質量或事物的形容詞後綴)。
形容詞衍生自名詞。

more pomegranate (comparative)
most pomegranate (superlative)

/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/

/ˈpɑmɪˌɡɹænɪt/

/ˈpɑməˌɡɹænət/

/ˈpɑmˌɡɹænət/

顏色像石榴的果肉或果皮的；深紅或橙紅的


prior

more prior (comparative)
most prior (superlative)


bananas

more bananas (comparative)
most bananas (superlative)

I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.

1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 377]:


rectal

The customs inspector subjected him to a rectal exam.

海關檢查員讓他去做直腸檢查。


peaceful

繼承自中古英語 peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull。

more peaceful (comparative)
peacefuller (comparative)
peacefuler (comparative)
most peaceful (superlative)
peacefullest (superlative)
peacefulest (superlative)


resourceful

more resourceful (comparative)
most resourceful (superlative)


pythonic

more pythonic (comparative)
most pythonic (superlative)


respectable

more respectable (comparative)
most respectable (superlative)


populous

在英語最早出現於15世紀中葉；源自拉丁語 populosus (“人口密集的，人口众多的”)。

more populous (comparative)
most populous (superlative)

India is the most populous country in the world.

印度是世界上人口最多的國家。

Chinese is the most populous language.

The Sino-Tibetan family includes Mandarin, the most populous language in the world, spoken by more than one billion Chinese.

汉藏语系包括普通话，这是世界上使用人数最多的语言，有超过十亿中国人使用普通话。

1974，Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina M. Hyams，An Introduction to Language, →ISBN，頁 524:

The Nile delta is a populous region.

尼羅河三角洲是個人口稠密的地區。

Airport departure halls are often populous places during the rush hours.

机场出发大厅在高峰时段通常非常拥挤。


resplendent

more resplendent (comparative)
most resplendent (superlative)


reddish

more reddish (comparative)
most reddish (superlative)


pharyngeal

/ˌfæɹɪnˈdʒiːəl/

/fəˈɹɪndʒəl/


borne

In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:

When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

1881 Oscar Wilde, "Rome Unvisited", Poems, page 44:

Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II:


pickled

more pickled (comparative)
most pickled (superlative)

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

1959，Georgette Heyer，章號 1, in The Unknown Ajax:


rich

richer (comparative)
more rich (comparative)
richest (superlative)
most rich (superlative)

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God


blasphemous

借自拉丁語 blasphēmus (“褻瀆”)，來自古希臘語 βλάσφημος (blásphēmos，“惡言傷人”)。

more blasphemous (comparative)
most blasphemous (superlative)

His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous.


brute

more brute (comparative)
most brute (superlative)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-bruit.wav


bareback

bareback riding

bareback sex

‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.

1937. "Bareback Bathing Ban Off", March 30, The New York Times


big-time

bigtime的另一種拼寫法


bating

more bating (comparative)
most bating (superlative)


reassuring

more reassuring (comparative)
most reassuring (superlative)

/ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/

The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

1963，Margery Allingham，章號 17, in The China Governess:

It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 95:


buckra

借自埃菲克語 mbakara或伊比比奧語 mbakara；對照古拉語 buckra (“白人”)。

backra (alternative)
bakra (alternative)
bukra (alternative)
buckruh (alternative)

a buckra yam


pearlescent

more pearlescent (comparative)
most pearlescent (superlative)


boundless

more boundless (comparative)
most boundless (superlative)

'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.

1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper … To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87:


bats

more bats (comparative)
most bats (superlative)

You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.

在寒冷的天氣裡不穿外套，你一定是瘋了。

"Don't be so bats, Binns! Why should anyone want to pinch just one boot?"
"He might have been a chap with only one leg."

1952，Anthony Buckeridge，Jennings and Darbishire:


burnt

burned (alternative)
more burnt (comparative)
most burnt (superlative)

burnt 作 burn 的一般過去式和過去分詞用法，一般用於英國，其作為形容詞的使用更加廣泛。

受到火或熱的傷害，燒壞、燒傷。

The toast was too burnt to eat.

比標準色要濃（特別指褐色）。


retinal

源自 retina + -al (“屬於……的；與……有關的”)。

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell


renascent

more renascent (comparative)
most renascent (superlative)


ramiform

more ramiform (comparative)
most ramiform (superlative)


recalcitrant

more recalcitrant (comparative)
most recalcitrant (superlative)


pedagogic

最早見於1781年。源自法語 pédagogique ← 拉丁語 paedagogicus ← 古希臘語 παιδαγωγικός (paidagōgikós) ← παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós，“老師”)，源自παῖς (paîs，“小孩”) + ἄγω (ágō，“領導”)。

more pedagogic (comparative)
most pedagogic (superlative)

/ˌpɛdəˈɡɒd͡ʒɪk/

/ˌpɛdəˈɡɒɡɪk/

/ˌpɛdəˈɡɑd͡ʒɪk/


rancid

:< 拉丁语 rancidus （“恶臭的，腐烂的”） < ranceō （“发臭”）。 该拉丁词还产生英语 rancor。

more rancid (comparative)
most rancid (superlative)

（含油食品）变质的，变味的，哈喇的


bull

more bull (comparative)
most bull (superlative)


bloodier

bloody的比較級形式：更加血腥的


recent

近来的；最近的；近代的；新近的；现世的


bearable

A joint cause is neither necessary nor sufficient for an effect—for example, any one of six pallbearers is a joint cause of carrying a coffin bearable by four.

2015，Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman，Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating:


repellent

more repellent (comparative)
most repellent (superlative)


beauteous

繼承自中古英語 beautevous、bewteose、beautuous、boyteous、beuteus、beuteowse、bewtyvows，等價於 beauty + -ous 和／或 beauty + -eous。

more beauteous (comparative)
most beauteous (superlative)


bygone

过去的；很久以前发生的。


besprent

來自中古英語 bespreynt，來自古英語 *besprengd，相等於be- + sprent。

more besprent (comparative)
most besprent (superlative)


brand-new

more brand-new (comparative)
most brand-new (superlative)

brand new (“全新的，嶄新的”)的另一種寫法


brash

brasher (comparative)
more brash (comparative)
brashest (superlative)
most brash (superlative)


biologic

/bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/


bitterer

bitter 的比較級形式。


bitterest

bitter的最高級形式。。


black-eyed

有黑色眼珠的，虹膜為黑色的


pleasant

pleasanter (comparative)
more pleasant (comparative)
pleasantest (superlative)
most pleasant (superlative)


practical

more practical (comparative)
most practical (superlative)


platonic

more platonic (comparative)
most platonic (superlative)


plainspoken

more plainspoken (comparative)
most plainspoken (superlative)

老實說的，直言無隱的，率直的


nonplussed

more nonplussed (comparative)
most nonplussed (superlative)


sanguinary

more sanguinary (comparative)
most sanguinary (superlative)

/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/

We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.

1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview):

It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country. China had substantial grievances against the peninsula kingdom. In the year A.D. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.

1933，“The Korean War and the Closing Years A.D. 645-50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty，Cambridge University Press, 出版於 1971, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 187:

Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.

"The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]"

1877，Samuel Green，The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia，頁 126:

I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]

1749，Henry Fielding，The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [棄兒湯姆·瓊斯的歷史]，卷 (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […], that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.

1913，H. G. Wells，Little Wars, Section VI:

We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.

1929，Robert Dean Frisbee，The Book of Puka-Puka，Eland, 出版於 2019，頁 117:


stupid

/ˈʃt͡ʃjʉːpəd/


sartorial

源自新拉丁語 sartorius，來自晚期拉丁語 sartor (“裁縫”)，來自拉丁語 sarcire (“修補”)。

more sartorial (comparative)
most sartorial (superlative)


Anglophone

/ˈæŋɡləˌfəʊn/

/ˈæŋɡləˌfoʊn/

/ˈeɪŋɡləˌfoʊn/


wider

wide 的比較級形式。


rightmost

She tried the rightmost door first.

她首先嘗試了最右邊的門。

Start with the rightmost one and work towards the left.

從最右邊的那個開始，然後向左移動。


iatrogenic

/aɪˌætɹəˈdʒɛnɪk/


surreal

more surreal (comparative)
most surreal (superlative)

類似夢境：玄妙、超現實的


Afghani

阿富汗的；阿富汗人的；阿富汗語的


diprotic

形容在溶液中，（某個酸的）每個分子最多能提供兩個氫離子（H⁺，又稱質子）

diprotic acid


serpiginous

拉丁語 serpigio (“匍匐蔓延的皮膚病”)。

Leprosy is a serpiginous disease.

麻风是一种具有匍行性疾病。


symbiotic

來自symbiosis + -otic，來自古希臘語 συμβίωσις (sumbíōsis)，來自σύν (sún，“和”) + βίος (bíos，“生命”)。

虽然symbiotic的生物学意义指“共生”，但在日常生活中，这个词更多指共同利益。

共生的或与共生有关的；共同生活。

两个人或生物之间的共同利益关系。


tailor-made

完全适合某一特定场合或目的；根据特定要求制做


ditzy

ditsy (alternative)
ditzier (comparative)
ditziest (superlative)


all in a day's work

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-all in a day's work.ogg


symmetric

more symmetric (comparative)
most symmetric (superlative)


go-home-and-do-it-again

(玩笑式的暗示)不被接受的


accessible

首次記錄於1400年，派生自法語，派生自晚期拉丁語 accessibilis，源自accessus，accēdō (“抵達”) 的完成過去分詞。

more accessible (comparative)
most accessible (superlative)


backward compatible

backward-compatible (alternative)
backwards compatible (alternative)
backwards-compatible (alternative)
backward compatible (comparative)
backward compatible (superlative)

The new editor is backward compatible with all versions later than 1.17.

新版編輯器可向下兼容1.17以後的版本。


Mosaic

和摩西或和妥拉有关的（尤指和妥拉中律法相关的）。


longwave

長波的（波長大於1000米的）


PTT

push-to-talk / press-to-talk / push-to-transmit / press-to-transmit之首字母縮略詞。


all-over

Charing Cross station of the old South-Eastern Railway differed much in appearance from that of today, as it had an arched all-over roof, which collapsed some nine years later and was replaced by the present one.

1939 June，T. R. Perkins，“My Red-Letter Day - II”, in Railway Magazine，頁 399:


AC/DC

more AC/DC (comparative)
most AC/DC (superlative)

The woman had great difficulty explaining it. ‘You know, AC–DC,’ she kept repeating. Finally she said, ‘Swings both ways.’ ‘Oh, you mean bisexual,’ Sandy said, ‘Yeah,’ the woman said, ‘AC–DC.’

1997，Nancy Toder，Choices，1980, page 132, 引於 Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, and Desire, Cassell, →OCLC，頁 98:


async

The tradeoff is that the first time an async event causes a scheduling point, it incurs the thread creation overhead that it has avoided.

2002，Peter Dibble，Real-time Java platform programming:


alloyed

more alloyed (comparative)
most alloyed (superlative)

Their pleasure was alloyed with misfortune.

他們的快樂與不幸交織在一起。


sufficient

（过时）能够履行义务的；负有责任的。


antijamming

Most military radios have some antijamming capability so they can be used in spite of the enemy's efforts to render them inoperative.

絕大多數的軍用電台都有抗干擾能力，所以即使有敵軍嘗試干擾，也能保持運作。

The new copier had an antijamming design to keep the paper from getting stuck.

這台新的複印機有防卡住的設計，出紙時紙不會發生堵塞。


antennal

more antennal (comparative)
most antennal (superlative)


CB

‘Twenty days C.B.,’ said one. ‘Twenty years, more likely,’ said another.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 133:

chemical and biological (“化學及生物的”)之首字母縮略詞。


CC

cement-coated (“鍍有水泥的”)之首字母縮略詞。


light-weight

more light-weight (comparative)
most light-weight (superlative)


DFA

designated for assignment (“指定派遣”)之首字母縮略詞。


multiprotocol

Unlike earlier generation units, new multiprotocol terminals can, under user control, “talk” in any communications protocol.

In a business environment that may require communications between the IBM PC and devices or host computers in a variety of protocols, a multiprotocol communications capability may be advantageous.

1987，Larry E. Jordan，Communications and Networking for the IBM Pc and Compatibles，頁 111:

As a result of these efforts, multiprotocol lambda switching (MPLmS) and, more recently, generalized multiprotocol label switching (G-MPLS) have been proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the control plane for dynamic provisioning and restoration of lightpaths in optical networks.

2004，Jun Zheng，Optical WDM Networks: Concepts and Design Principles，頁 211:


brb

BRB的大小寫替代形式。


MP

multiplayer (“多人玩家”)之首字母縮略詞。


case sensitive

more case sensitive (comparative)
most case sensitive (superlative)

大小寫相關的，區分大小寫字母的


FTP

free-to-play (“免費遊玩”)之首字母縮略詞。


run-time

a run-time error


time-critical

more time-critical (comparative)
most time-critical (superlative)


tutorial

形容詞是來自tutor (名詞) + -ial，源頭來自拉丁語 tūtor (“觀察者，監護人，防守者”)。名詞是從形容詞轉變來的。

/tjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/

/tʊˈtɔɹijəɫ/

/tʃʉˈtoːɹiəɫ/

The probability is that any verse of this nature, in which the lines are worn smooth, is one which has been causing tutorial ears to tingle for a generation at least; and very probably it is known in a variety of forms.

1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (page 363)


手機通訊技術規格的過渡階段，下一代標準為2.75G。

GPRS

手機通訊技術規格的過渡階段，下一代標準為2.75G。

HSCSD

手機通訊技術規格的過渡階段，下一代標準為2.75G。

手機通訊技術規格的過渡階段，下一代標準為2.75G。


第二代行動通訊技術，下一代標準為2.5G。包括GSM、DMA、TDMA、iDEN、PDC。


more 3-dimensional (comparative)
most 3-dimensional (superlative)


與一個假的電話號碼有關。在21世紀之前，北美的撥號計劃中，本地交換機和區號555被保留為虛構的號碼。

555-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.

1-555-321-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.

(555)234-2368, that's a 555 number, it isn't real.


I started creating 8-bit music around 2002 when I picked up nanoloop […]

2007, Nick Collins, Julio d'Escriván, The Cambridge companion to electronic music (page 189)

來自或類似8位元電腦時代藝術或音樂的

Typically far more complex than the songs of the 8-bit games, songs in Amiga games had a highly varied structure, but usually followed the same basic principles seen in the 8-bit games (shorter loops with fewer distinct sections for battle music, and longer loops with more distinct sections for in-game music).

2008年January1日，Karen Collins，Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design，MIT Press, →ISBN:

Much of La-Mulanas 8-bit' aesthetic is tied to its self-imposed graphical limitations. To start, the native resolution of 256 × 192 pixels is (as we would expect) much less than that of contemporary standards[…]

2008年November12日，Brett Camper，“Retro Reflexivity: La-Mulana”, in The Video Game Theory Reader 2，Routledge, →ISBN:


acyclic

more acyclic (comparative)
most acyclic (superlative)

不是循環的； 具有開鏈結構的

花的各部分呈螺旋狀插在花托上的


AI-complete

人工智能完全/完善（strong AI）。

Problems like solving crosswords from clues are reputed as AI-complete [7]. This enormous complexity is due to its semantics and the large amount of encyclopaedic knowledge required.

2006, M.Gori, M.Ernandes, G.Angelini, "Cracking Crosswords: The Computer Challenge", Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello, edited by Oliviero Stock, Marco Schaerf, Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 9783540379010, page 266

Just as concept kernels are not AI-complete, sequiturs and resonances are not AI-complete. Sequiturs and resonances also may not need to be human- equivalent to minimally support deliberation; it is acceptable for an early AI to miss out on many humanly obvious thoughts, so long as those thoughts which are successfully generated sum to fully general deliberation.

2007, Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Artificial General Intelligence, Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 9783540686774, page 452

... Now imagine a remote descendant of such a system that has acquired the ability to read with as much understanding as a human ten-year-old but with a reading speed similar to that of TextRunner. (This is probably an AI-complete problem.)

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199678112, page 71


airbrushed

more airbrushed (comparative)
most airbrushed (superlative)

經過數字操作，去除了瑕疵的


all-in-one

To coincide with the launch, LNER has introduced fixed-price all-in-one return fares for two adults and up to four children, priced at £129 between London, Thornaby and London.

2021年December29日，“Network News: LNER launches King's Cross-Middlesbrough direct service”, in RAIL，期 947，頁 12:


alphabetic

一部分借自法語 alphabétique，一部份源自後者的詞源拉丁語 alphabēticus。 By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic。


AZERTY

azerty的另一種寫法


DC

direct coded (“直接編碼”)之首字母縮略詞。


forward compatible

forwards compatible (alternative)
forward compatible (comparative)
forward compatible (superlative)


Gothic

Goth + -ic，自17世紀始在英語有使用。源自晚期拉丁語 gothicus。
不同的形容詞用法幾乎是同時在17世紀前半部分開始使用的。“哥特人的”之義在1611版欽定本聖經的前言中有使用（the Gothicke tongue）。“日耳曼的；條頓的”一義在1640年代出現，而“哥特式的；中世紀的”一義也在1640年代出現，同樣“哥特字體的”也是如此。

more Gothic (comparative)
most Gothic (superlative)

goth

哥特亞文化、音樂、生活方式等的。（自1980年代始）

哥特人/哥特語的。（自1611始）

classical

哥特式的（建築風格）。（自1640年代始）

Baroque

Gothic arches

(文學) 與哥特復興相關的小說寫法，內容多描寫神祕背景氣氛中的暴力/恐怖事件。（自19世紀早期始）

Gothic tales

(印刷、英國用語) 哥特體（過去印刷使用的字體）的。

Gothic letters

(印刷、美國用語) 線條直、寬度均勻的無襯線字體，又稱作grotesque。

哥特亞文化、音樂、生活方式等的。（自1980年代始）

industrial

Gothic rock

Gothic dress


QWERTY

美國發明家克里斯托弗·萊瑟姆·肖爾斯 (1819–1890)發明了QWERTY鍵盤
1873年的Sholes打字機，配備qwerty了鍵盤
來自QWERTY鍵盤上排的前六個字母。

qwerty (alternative)
Qwerty (alternative)

表示鍵盤上用於鍵入的按鍵的標準佈局，其中最上面字母行的最左邊的鍵順序是 Q-W-E-R-T-Y 。

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978，Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science，卷s 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN，頁 109:

The older children we came to know had had a great deal of experience with written language, and they certainly had a firm grasp of the alphabetic sequence. They were annoyed with the arrangement of letters on the typewriter keyboard, which begins at the second from the top row and proceeds left to right with the letters, "Q," "W," "E," "R," "T," and "Y." Computer professionals, who refer to this arrangement as the "QWERTY keyboard," have pointed out that, although it originated in order to avoid jam-ups of frequently used keys on the manual typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement is now completely obsolete but apparently here to stay. Third and fourth graders knew only that QWERTY had no logic that they could discern, and, until they developed basic keyboard familiarity, it greatly delayed their attempts at finding the keys they needed.

1991，Marilyn Cochran-Smith，Cynthia L. Paris，Jessica L. Kahn，“Hunting, Pecking, and Checking: Learning to Write with Word Processing”, in Learning to Write Differently: Beginning Writers and Word Processing (Language and Educational Processes)，Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, →ISBN，頁 137:

[…] The Dvorak typewriter keyboard is, it has been claimed, ergonomically superior to the standard "Qwerty" arrangement. But having settled on the current standard keyboard, largely by historical accident, now manufacturers are supposedly reluctant to produce Dvorak keybboards so long as almost all typists are trained on Qwerty, while typists don't want to train on Dvorak when almost all keyboards are Qwerty. Even the inferior keyboard as a matched choice is superior to failing to coordinate at all.

1992，Jack Hirshleifer，John G. Riley，“Strategic Uncertainty and Equilibrium Concepts”, in The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature)，Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 出版於 2002, →ISBN, section 9.1 (Nash Equilibrium)，頁 330:

The ‘QWERTY’ layout of keyboards is also a cause for concern. The design means that the fingers of the left hand (the less dominant hand for most Westerners) do 57 per cent of the work in typing English text. RSI symptoms are often found to be more intense in the left hand of keyboard users.

1993年September11日，John Ballard，“RSI on Trial: More People Suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury are Seeking Compensation in Court as Fresh Evidence Comes to Light about the Symptoms and Causes of this Crippling Disorder”, in New Scientist，London: New Scientist Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2016-04-13:

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994，Henri-Jean Martin，Lydia G. Cochrane, transl.，“Beyond Writing”, in The History and Power of Writing，Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN，頁 465:


relatively prime

在數學中，這個形容詞可以用在諸如「A and B are relatively prime」、「A is relatively prime to B"」以及較不常見的「A is relatively prime with B」”之類的短語中。

互質，數和數之間沒有大於1的共同因數

24 and 35 are relatively prime.

互質，某數相對於其他數沒有大於1的共同因數

24 is relatively prime to 35.


sensitive

more sensitive (comparative)
most sensitive (superlative)


time-lapse

Operation London Bridge, also from 1975, tells the story of the busy station's redevelopment. Cutting neatly from the barrow boys of Borough Market to an aerial view of Borough Market Junction, the film uses time lapse photography to show the congestion rife in the area during the morning rush hour.

2021年March10日，Greg Morse，“Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL，期 926，頁 48:


transnational

more transnational (comparative)
most transnational (superlative)


turnkey

more turnkey (comparative)
most turnkey (superlative)

無需進一步組裝或測試使用的；可立刻交鑰匙的

They wanted a turnkey solution for the entire system, but we could only provide the enclosure.

Third World countries no longer want to purchase nuclear projects on a turn-key basis; they want to receive advanced technical training as well.

1980, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1980, Kathleen Bailey, When and why weapons; page 42

He cautioned that the house “is not turnkey,” and that because it is “so unusual,” it may take a while to sell. But, he added, “It’s a joy to be selling a property with its history.”

2023年March22日，Ben West，“This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The New York Times:


typical

派生自晚期拉丁語 typicalis，來自拉丁語 typicus，來自古希臘語 τυπικός (tupikós)，來自τύπος (túpos)。

more typical (comparative)
most typical (superlative)


zero-based

零基的：不受過往安排情況影響的


zig-zag

more zig-zag (comparative)
most zig-zag (superlative)

zigzag的另一種拼寫法


back-end

back-end database

back-end developer


biomimetic

/ˌbaɪəʊmɪˈmɛtɪk/


accusative

more accusative (comparative)
most accusative (superlative)


bester

較好、更好；best 的比較級形式。


ail

繼承自中古英語 eyle、eile，繼承自古英語 eġle (“醜陋的，討厭的，可惡的，可怕的，麻煩的，悲傷的，痛苦的”)。和哥特語 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aglus，“艱難、艱困”)同源。

ailer (comparative)
more ail (comparative)
ailest (superlative)
most ail (superlative)
ile (alternative)


alerter

alert 的比較級形式。


ammoniac

繼承自中古英語 ammoniak，源自中世紀拉丁語 ammōniacum。

more ammoniac (comparative)
most ammoniac (superlative)

an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas


ammoniacal

A quick scent, sweet and ammoniacal, rose from her pubis.

一股甜甜的、氨水般的气味迅速从她的耻骨上飘出。

2000，JG Ballard，Super-Cannes，Fourth Estate, 出版於 2011，頁 231:


antipollution

more antipollution (comparative)
most antipollution (superlative)

He also proposed putting more air purifiers in schools and to explore additional anti-pollution efforts with China.
他还提议在学校安装更多的空气净化器，并与中国探讨进一步的防治污染举措。
#*::
 音頻 (美國)： (檔案)

2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)


Argentine

源自古法語 argentin (“銀色的”) ← 拉丁語 argentum (“銀”)。


aromatique

more aromatique (comparative)
most aromatique (superlative)


cajun

Cajun的大小寫替代形式

MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Great country, cajun, and swing music to listen to and dance to.

2009年January29日，“Other music”, in Herald Sun:


contenter

content 的比較級形式。

I thank God, that my children has got two such good homes as they have, and I am a great deal contenter, than in England, and can make a good living.

December 21, 1832, Thomas Adsett, letter to the Rev. Robert Ridsdal, published in Wendy Cameron et al. (eds.), English Immigrant Voices: Labourers’ Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s (McGill-Queen's Press, 2000), ISBN 9780773568334, p. 87:


sexual

more sexual (comparative)
most sexual (superlative)

〈多修饰名词〉性行为的；性的

〈修饰名词〉生殖的；有性繁殖的

〈多修饰名词〉性别的；性的


jambu

來自馬來語 jambu的語義延伸，發源自梵語 जाम्बव (jāmbava，“果實或蒲桃”)。

more jambu (comparative)
most jambu (superlative)

用來描述女性。沒有任何性方面的暗示。常用於演講或電子媒介中。少見於新聞或紙質材料。

You discover that she has SISTERS, who are also very jambu.

2000 2 December, m0bius, soc.culture.singapore

She has this healthy glow, almost like she's golden skinned, but oh so jambu lah!

2007 27 August, http://her-whimsical-escapade.blogspot.sg

got this mat saleh soooo jambu.

2008 26 July, CR[7], Singapore Bikes Forum

Add me pls . There are only 5 Salmah Samions ! The most jambu looking profile is me lah !

I also wanna look jambu also what on that 2-day event.

2014 16 October, https://web.archive.org/web/20160910012100/https://faithinloveandyou.wordpress.com/

My very jambu Shahida for her engagement today. I have a thing for braces girls.

2014 6 December, theatelierweddings, Instagram

don't sabo that minah jambu lah.

2015 1 August, figo16, Singapore Hardware Zone Forum

A reader has shared with us a Facebook post by jambu ICA officer Adilla Ramli. She gives her view on the recent ICA jams.

2015 21 December, Farhan, All Singapore Stuff


pos

more pos (comparative)
most pos (superlative)

I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

先生，我对此并不完全认同。


Turki

more Turki (comparative)
most Turki (superlative)


antispam

...at times I get huge amounts of duplicate messages that can overload my mail-reception pipeline, particularly antispam filters.

2005, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, Python Cookbook


Cauchy

(可否驗證此條釋義?) 其項彼此變得任意接近。


electrophonic

與產生聲音的電子設備有關的

與這種電子設備產生出的聲音有關的


Khmer

來自高棉語 ខ្មែរ (khmae)。歸因於巴利語詞彙khemara (“健康的人”)。省略形式ក្មេរ (kmera)可在古代石刻發現，或借用北部高棉語 เขมร (/khmɛːr/)。

more Khmer (comparative)
most Khmer (superlative)


Kongo

more Kongo (comparative)
most Kongo (superlative)

In addition, an initial analysis of Kongo cosmology, cosmogony, and mythology allows us to see and appreciate the conceptual parallels between Kongo culture in Central Africa and in Cuba.

2013，Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz，Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign:


supranational

超國家的，多國的，跨國的

同類詞：infranational、intranational、national、transnational、international

Global warming is a supranational problem.

全球暖化是一個超國家的問題。

The Systems Alliance is an independent supranational government representing the interests of humanity as a whole. The Alliance is responsible for the governance and defense of all extra-solar colonies and stations. […]

星系联盟是一个独立的超国家政府，代表全人类的利益。星系联盟负责所有太阳系外殖民地和空间站的治理和防御。 […]

2008，BioWare，Mass Effect，Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC，幕：Systems Alliance Codex entry:

If its Middle-earth series becomes must-see TV around the world, it would mean millions of new devoted subscribers in the Amazon Prime fellowship, collectively paying billions of dollars, lured by a fleet of dwarves, elves, and hobbits that would, one might say, rule their shopping behaviors and bind them to one supranational force.

2017年November13日，Derek Thompson，“Why Amazon Thinks You Want to Watch a ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Show (or Five)”, in The Atlantic:


NB

northbound (“北向的”)之首字母縮略詞。

Park Avenue and 42nd Street Prohibit parking on the NB lanes to provide 2 RT / 1 LT lanes; adjust signal timing to provide protected NB movement.

2001, East Side Access in New York, Queens, and Bronx Counties, New York, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York: Environmental Impact Statement, page 50:

Prior to rubblization, severely distressed joints and / or cracks were documented in the NB lanes.

2011, Irene K. Battaglia, Investigation of Early Distress in Wisconsin Rubblized Pavements, page 23:

non-binary (“非二元的”)之首字母縮略詞。

'If I come up with an idea in a meeting, it gets ignored until one of the guys says the exact same thing and then everybody listens to him. And don't even get me started on how hard it is to get promoted.' 'Being an NB person, I get very used to being misgendered.'

2017, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (ISBN 9781784505172), page 75:

Sexual health for trans/non-binary people / Service provision

2019, Laura Mitchell, Bridie Howe, D. Ashley Price, Babiker Elawad, K. Nathan Sankar, Oxford Handbook of GUM and HIV, Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780198783497), page 46:

nonblack (“非黑色的”)之首字母縮略詞。

Perhaps stress-strain testing appears to be superior to ODC testing in between-lab operations, because it is an older and more established test technique. Part 2 of Table 10.A9 allows a comparison for non-black (NB) and black (B) testing.

(我們可以確定引用的日期嗎？), Basic Rubber Testing, ASTM International, page 202:

The number lying to the right of a given income class indicates the probability of a family, Black (B) and non-Black (NB), living in the designated census tract, earning an income within that income class.

1972, Savannah State College (Ga.), Faculty Research Edition of the Savannah State College Bulletin

*Plaintiffs could argue that their position vis-a-vis the non-black (NB) casuals was discriminatory, […]


abominable

繼承自中古英語 abhomynable，派生自古法語 abominable，派生自晚期拉丁語 abōminābilis (“應受憎惡的”)，源自abōminor (“憎惡，貶低為不祥之兆”)，源自ab (“從；遠離”) + ōminor (“預示，預測，預言”)，源自ōmen (“跡象，預兆”)

more abominable (comparative)
most abominable (superlative)

討厭的，可惡的，可憎的，可鄙的


calcular

a calcular deposit


confabular

more confabular (comparative)
most confabular (superlative)


improviso

源自拉丁語 improvisus (“無法預見的”)；對比意大利語 improvviso。

Samuel Johnson


vincular

See Table 3.2 for a collection of enumerative results related to vincular 3-patterns, as well as for their connections to other combinatorial objects.

2011，Sergey Kitaev，Patterns in Permutations and Words，頁 293:


venti

原始印歐語詞
 *dwóh₁
借自意大利語 venti (“二十[盎司]”)。

同類詞：tall、grande


holo

We compared the holo and apo forms of the protein.


abominate

首次記錄於1644年。可能自abomination 的逆構詞。或者，派生自晚期拉丁語 abōminātus，abōminarī (“貶低為不祥之兆”) 的過去分詞，源自ab + ominari (“預示、預兆”)，源自omen。

more abominate (comparative)
most abominate (superlative)

/əˈbɒm.əˌnəɪt/

/əˈbɒm.ɪˌnəɪt/

可惡的、厭惡的 （首次記錄於16世紀晚期）


abortive

more abortive (comparative)
most abortive (superlative)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-abortive.wav


absent-minded

absentminded (alternative)
more absent-minded (comparative)
most absent-minded (superlative)

心不在焉的，健忘的；容易分心的 （首次記錄於19世紀中期）

It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.

心不在焉的男人花了二十分鐘才發現他的眼鏡戴在了頭上。


abstruse

借自法語 abstrus或拉丁語 abstrūsus (“隱藏的”)，abstrūdō (“隱藏，推開”) 的完成過去分詞，源自ab, abs (“離開”) + trūdō (“推”)。和德語 abstrus 同源。

abstruser (comparative)
more abstruse (comparative)
abstrusest (superlative)
most abstruse (superlative)

難懂的、難解的、深奧的 （自16世紀晚期。）

隱藏的、隱蔽的 （16世紀晚期－18世紀中期）


abundant

首次記錄於1380年。繼承自中古英語 abundaunt、habundaunt、 aboundant，派生自盎格魯-諾曼語 abundant，派生自古法語 abondant，派生自拉丁語 abundāns，abundo (“溢出、富有”) 的現在分詞。對照abound。

aboundant (alternative)
abundaunt (alternative)
habundaunt (alternative)
habundant (alternative)
more abundant (comparative)
most abundant (superlative)


abusive

more abusive (comparative)
most abusive (superlative)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-abusive.wav


academic

源自中世紀拉丁語 acadēmicus和法語 académique，派生自拉丁語 academia，派生自古希臘語 ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)，源自Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) 或 Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)，該地為柏拉圖講學之處；另見academy。

academick (alternative)
acad (alternative)
acad. (alternative)
Academic (alternative)
more academic (comparative)
most academic (superlative)

/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/


accelerated

more accelerated (comparative)
most accelerated (superlative)

加速的，比平常移動或進展得更快的

The requirement that students read textual materials before their first class is probably more important for accelerated than intensive courses, but it is relevant for both.

2010，Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Margery B. Ginsberg，Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses: Instruction that Motivates Learning, →ISBN，頁 9:

OMB's November 15 deadline for the PAR submission is earlier than the statutory deadline. OMB's recent memorandum to agency heads on the subject made this accelerated deadline permanent

2006，David M. Walker，Performance Budgeting: PART Focuses Attention on Program Performance, But More Can Be Done to Engage Congress, →ISBN，頁 41:


accountable

more accountable (comparative)
most accountable (superlative)

Every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

You will be held accountable for your misdemeanors.

"Because the railway is economically and socially vital, it receives large amounts of public money and must therefore ultimately be accountable to government. [...]

2020年April22日，Philip Haigh，“Labour's blueprint for the future of Britain's railways”, in Rail，頁 28:

有義務準確紀錄的 (財產或資金)

True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege.

1703，Benjamin Whichcote，Moral and Religious Aphorisms:


accoutred

(尤用於軍事) 裝備、配備有……的

(尤指軍隊) 擁有為達成特殊目的而需使用的重要物資的


accusatory

more accusatory (comparative)
most accusatory (superlative)


achievable

more achievable (comparative)
most achievable (superlative)


acidulous

more acidulous (comparative)
most acidulous (superlative)

/əˈsɪdʒələs/


militar

more militar (comparative)
most militar (superlative)


submeter

以小于米的单位为基础的比例


funnier

funny 的比較級形式。

The film was funnier than I thought it would be.

這部電影比我想象中的要更有趣。


funniest

funny的最高級形式。


nudiustertian

借自拉丁語 nudius tertius，源自短語 nunc dies tertius est (“现在是第三天”)。此詞為納撒尼爾·沃德 (1578–1652) 於《The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America》（1647）中所造。

One of the best Chocolate gateau^([sic，意為gateaux]) I have ever had! And I just had it nudiustertian afternoon.

2015年April14日，“Jet”，“Jamaica Blue”, in Brewtiful Coffee (blog)，存檔自the original on 2016-04-10:

Nudiustertian – adjective Definition: Want a new way to mention something that happened on Wednesday – the day before yesterday? Here you go. Example: “I shared some corned beef hash that nudiustertian morning.”

2015年August21日，“Jaffe Morning Briefing”, in NJTV，存檔自the original on 2015-09-06:


hardcore

more hardcore (comparative)
most hardcore (superlative)

核心，中坚；死守的；死硬的；坚持的，顽强的，顽固的

激烈的，强烈的，剧烈的；古怪的，毛骨悚然的；表面上暴力的

有阴茎插入镜头的，描绘阴交的

（比普通音乐）更加激烈的，更强烈的


agrestic

:< 拉丁語 agrestis （“乡村的；粗野的”） < ager （“田野，农场”）。

more agrestic (comparative)
most agrestic (superlative)

农村的，乡间的，乡土气的


intimidated

more intimidated (comparative)
most intimidated (superlative)


screwed

:screw + -ed（动词过去式、过去分词词尾；形容词“…状，以…装饰的”之意后缀）。

more screwed (comparative)
most screwed (superlative)

完蛋了的，受骗了的，被破坏的，弄糟了的


supernumerary

:< 后期拉丁语 supernumerarius （“过多的，多余的”） < super （“在…之上”） + numerum —— numerus （“数”）的宾格形。


pleonastic

more pleonastic (comparative)
most pleonastic (superlative)


atrabilious

:< 拉丁語 ātra bīlis （“黑色胆汁”），自 āter （“黑的，暗的”） + bīlis （“胆汁”）。 吸收入英语的同时也加上了英语的形容词后缀 -ous （“充满…的”）。

more atrabilious (comparative)
most atrabilious (superlative)

心地不良的，恶毒的，阴险的


effing

同 fucking：该死的，他妈的

The effing television's on the blink again!


reliable

more reliable (comparative)
most reliable (superlative)

/ɹɪˈlaɪəbəl/

We're looking for someone who is reliable and hardworking.

我們正在物色可靠而又勤奮的人。

People or things that are reliable can be trusted to work well or to behave in the way that you want them to.

可靠的人和事物能夠工作得好或者能以您希望他們表現的方式來行事。


Chinglish

more Chinglish (comparative)
most Chinglish (superlative)


cheated

more cheated (comparative)
most cheated (superlative)

The people feel cheated by the government's decision.

人民感到被政府的決策所欺騙。


ancient

ancienter (comparative)
more ancient (comparative)
ancientest (superlative)
most ancient (superlative)


terrific

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-terrific.wav

（口語、非正式）非常好的、讚


drooping

more drooping (comparative)
most drooping (superlative)

drooping flowers


haunted

more haunted (comparative)
most haunted (superlative)
hauntedest (superlative)

The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

a soldier haunted by the memories of combat

a haunted expression


substantial

more substantial (comparative)
most substantial (superlative)


flabbergasted

more flabbergasted (comparative)
most flabbergasted (superlative)

He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.

他對體重增加的幅度感到非常吃驚。

Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.

麥克斯韋向他目瞪口呆的客人猛撲過去，客人及時躲開，躲開了伸向他的大手。

1952，Agnes Morley Cleaveland.，Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert，Houghton-Mifflin:

From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.

從報紙後面，她看到一個衣著整潔的男人正吃著她的餅乾，這讓她'大吃一驚。

2008，Dutch Sheets，Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home，Gospel Light，頁 57:


ice-cold

來自中古英語 *is-cold，來自古英語 īsċeald，對應ice + cold。與薩特弗里斯蘭語 ieskoold (“冰冷”)、西弗里斯蘭語 iiskâld (“冰冷”)、荷蘭語 ijskoud (“冰冷”)、南非語 yskoud (“冰冷”)、德國低地德語 ieskold (“冰冷”)、德語 eiskalt (“冰冷”)、丹麥語 iskold (“冰冷”)、瑞典語 iskall (“冰冷”)、挪威語 iskald (“冰冷”)、法羅語 ísakaldur (“冰冷”)、冰島語 ískaldur (“冰冷”)同源。

more ice-cold (comparative)
most ice-cold (superlative)

When Tripp holds his red soda like it’s an ice-cold beer, it probably isn’t actually Mountain Dew Code Red, but it might as well be.

2017年January12日，Jesse Hassenger，“A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:

Now I'm sitting here
Sipping on my ice-cold beer
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.


sleigh

sleigher (comparative)
sleighest (superlative)


spiteful

spitefuller (comparative)
spitefullest (superlative)


sunken

The sunken ship lay at a depth of 100 feet

沉船位於100英尺深的水底

She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.

她看起來又老又瘦，臉頰和眼眶都凹陷著。

The heartbreak will take some getting over; the sunken forms of the players at the full-time whistle said as much.

2023年July20日，Suzanne Wrack，“Spain win Women’s World Cup as Olga Carmona strike breaks England hearts”, in The Guardian:


self-made

self-structured

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

self-formed

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

nepotistic

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

cronyish

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

靠自己奮鬥成功的；白手起家的

My father was the quintessential self-made man.

我的父亲是典型的白手起家的人。

“These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added.

2021年November9日，Max Harrison-Caldwell，引 Peter Sokolowski, “Words Full of Sound and Fury”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules.

1905，Fielding Yost，Football for Player and Spectator:


semi-circular

more semi-circular (comparative)
most semi-circular (superlative)

Seven huge concentric semi-circular rings of stone surround the northern end, and quite rightly are Grade 2-listed by conservation body Historic England.

2020年August26日，Tim Dunn，“Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail，頁 45:


exploitative

more exploitative (comparative)
most exploitative (superlative)


talkative

more talkative (comparative)
most talkative (superlative)


sloppy

sloppier (comparative)
sloppiest (superlative)


eye-catching

more eye-catching (comparative)
most eye-catching (superlative)

The substitute then scored again when the ball broke to him following another jagged run by Walcott, who saved his most eye-catching contribution for stoppage time, when he turned up on the left wing and scampered into the area before showing splendid composure to ignore a foul and dink the ball over Krul.

2012年December29日，Paul Doyle，“Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian:


state-owned

The French Government is Eurostar's majority shareholder, with the country's state-owned railway SNCF holding a 55% stake, while Belgian state operator SNCB has a 5% stake.

法国政府是欧洲之星的最大股东，法国国有铁路公司SNCF持有55%的股份，而比利时国家运营商SNCB持有5%的股份。

2021年February10日，Richard Clinnick，“Eurostar boost as French promise aid”, in RAIL，期 924，頁 10:


aboriginal

more aboriginal (comparative)
most aboriginal (superlative)

/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.n̩.l̩/

/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪn.l̩/


tiny

tinier (comparative)
tiniest (superlative)


studious

:出自英语 study ("学习")，出自拉丁语 studiōsus ("热忱")。

专心的，有意的，花费心思的。


antagonistic

more antagonistic (comparative)
most antagonistic (superlative)


workaholic

more workaholic (comparative)
most workaholic (superlative)


technological

more technological (comparative)
most technological (superlative)


theatrical

more theatrical (comparative)
most theatrical (superlative)


speculative

more speculative (comparative)
most speculative (superlative)


superintelligent

more superintelligent (comparative)
most superintelligent (superlative)


Germanic

more Germanic (comparative)
most Germanic (superlative)


simple-minded

more simple-minded (comparative)
most simple-minded (superlative)


Baptist

more Baptist (comparative)
most Baptist (superlative)


cringeworthy

more cringeworthy (comparative)
most cringeworthy (superlative)

/ˈkɹɪndʒˌwɜːð.i/

（節目、表演）令人感到尷尬的，令人不舒服的；令人生厭的


shaky

shakier (comparative)
shakiest (superlative)

a shaky spot in a marsh

a shaky hand

He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.

他是個很好的人，但跟我講話的時候就表現得很緊張。

For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?

2006，Paul A. Grayson, Philip W. Meilman，College Mental Health Practice，頁 11:

Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half.

2011年April10日，Alistair Magowan，“Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:

shaky timber

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:shaky。

容易搖晃的，搖搖欲墜的，不牢固的

a shaky constitution

shaky business credit


decaffeinated

源自 de- + caffeine + -ated 或 de- + caffeinated。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-decaffeinated.wav


toothless

more toothless (comparative)
most toothless (superlative)


Pekingese

Pekinese (alternative)
Pekingnese (alternative)
pekinese (alternative)
pekingese (alternative)


allotropic

Graphite and diamond are allotropic forms of carbon.

石墨和鑽石是碳的同素異形形式。


ooid

more ooid (comparative)
most ooid (superlative)

One thinks of everything from amphitheaters like the Colosseum to Buckminster Fuller in his more ooid modes

2001，George L. Hersey，The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots，頁 152:


amphiphilic

more amphiphilic (comparative)
most amphiphilic (superlative)

同時擁有親水和疏水基團的

Sequential living polymerizations of hydrophilic and hydrophobic vinyl ethers from these trifunctional initiators give amphiphilic triarmed block copolymers where the hydrophilic segments may be placed either inner or outer layer of the three arms.

1997，Hatada，Macromolecular Design of Polymeric Materials, →ISBN，頁 45:

一個表面由親水性氨基酸組成、另一表面由疏水性氨基酸組成的


anti-aging

more anti-aging (comparative)
most anti-aging (superlative)


photosynthesizing

A thick blanket of dust that was thrown up darkened the globe, affecting plants and other photosynthesising life.

扬起的一层厚厚的灰尘使地球变得黑暗，影响了植物和其他进行光合作用的生命。


non-uniform

more non-uniform (comparative)
most non-uniform (superlative)


spectrophotometric

分光光度法的；以分光光度計測量的


unpolluted

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inflamed

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adaptive

more adaptive (comparative)
most adaptive (superlative)

The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.

1859，Charles Darwin，The Origin of Species:

That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.

1896，C. Lloyd Morgan，On Modification and Variation:


world-renowned

world-famous

（在某一領域）世界知名的

（在某一領域）世界知名的


anomalous

more anomalous (comparative)
most anomalous (superlative)


transitional

transitional justice


anaplerotic

*源自 ana-（“向上”） + 希腊语 πλήρης（“完全、满”）。对比希腊语 αναπληρώ（“补充，补给；替换；代理”）。

（～ reaction）补给反应，回补反应（形成代谢途径中间产物的反应）


beleaguered

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most beleaguered (superlative)


Ethiopian

more Ethiopian (comparative)
most Ethiopian (superlative)


attached

more attached (comparative)
most attached (superlative)

detached

在兩個面與類似建築共享牆面

semiattached

在兩個面與類似建築共享牆面

I'm very attached to my pets.

As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.

據我所知，他現在還是單身，所以我要邀請他出來約會。

I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.

我還不想談戀愛，因為我想繼續到處拈花惹草。

與根或柄廣泛連接，但並未達到下延程度的

In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.

這組蘑菇中，菌褶與柄著生到幾乎下延。

(指住宅樓) 在兩個面與類似建築共享牆面的


trenchant

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most trenchant (superlative)


devastated

more devastated (comparative)
most devastated (superlative)

垮掉的城市

Mary Ann was devastated when she found out her son was bullying a girl at school.

瑪麗安發現自己的兒子在學校欺負了一位女生，於是乎心寒到了極點。


yellow-green

more yellow-green (comparative)
most yellow-green (superlative)

yellow-green：

web yellow-green：


environmentally friendly

more environmentally friendly (comparative)
most environmentally friendly (superlative)

"HS2's London tunnels will help ensure many homes and habitats in the capital remain undisturbed. This is a key part of our commitment to deliver Britain's new high-speed railway in the most environmentally friendly way and minimising disruption to our neighbours," said HS2 Ltd Client Director Malcolm Codling.

2020年October21日，“Network News: London tunnel contracts awarded with work to start in 2022”, in Rail，頁s 12-13:


smelly

smellier (comparative)
smelliest (superlative)

有使人難受的氣味的，臭的

〈俚〉

〈口〉


temerarious

:拉丁语temerarius（“偶然发生的，轻率的”），temere（“偶然的，随意的”）

/ˌtɛməˈɹɛəɹi.əs/


more 2 (comparative)
most 2 (superlative)


GV

gender variant (“非常規性別”)之首字母縮略詞。


Malagasy

/ˌmæləˈɡæsi/

马拉加斯人的，马达加斯加人的，马达加斯加语的。


spooky

闹鬼的，吓人的，阴森森的，鬼影森森的，令人毛骨悚然的，可怖的。


unowned

不公開或承認是自己的財產或作品


unofficious

more unofficious (comparative)
most unofficious (superlative)


last ditch

He stayed up all night in a last ditch effort to finish on time.

為了按時完成，他熬了整晚的夜，作最後的努力。


unsatisfying

不令人满意的，（食物）吃不饱的。


circumglobal

more circumglobal (comparative)
most circumglobal (superlative)


prima facie

:拉丁语prima（“第一，首先”）和facie（“形状，图形”），字面意思是“在第一次出现时”


supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

首次用於1940年代，因在1964年迪士尼音樂電影《歡樂滿人間》中作為歌名使用而聞名。
衍生自拉丁語 super (“超越”) + calor (“熱情”) + fragilis (“美味”) + expiātiō (“滿足”) + doceō (“教導”) + -ous。

/ˌsuːpəˌkælɨˌfɹæd͡ʒɨˌlɪstɪkˌɛkspɪˌælɨˈdəʊʃəs/

/ˌsupɚˌkælɪ̈ˌfɹæd͡ʒɪ̈ˌlɪstɪkˌɛkspiˌælɪ̈ˈdoʊʃəs/

常被作為超長單字的例子。

It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

1964年August27日，Mary Poppins，spoken by Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews):

By comparison with the present transcribers, I'm sure my performance would be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

2010年March15日，Rose Madeline Mula，The Beautiful People and Other Aggravations，Gretna: Pelican Publishing, →ISBN, →OL，頁 91:

This is a real biggie so pay attention—I still pinch myself occasionally to even believe I did this; it was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

2011，Mary B. Allberry，I Ain't Done Yet，Victoria: FriesenPress, →ISBN, →OL，頁 91:


junky

junkier (comparative)
junkiest (superlative)


goodest

標準的最高級為best。


four-eyed

(俚语, 大多数情况下贬义) 戴着眼镜的。


melted

more melted (comparative)
most melted (superlative)

Melted ice cream just isn't as much fun to eat.

融化的冰淇淋吃起来没有那么有趣了。


Lisu

源自官話 傈僳 (lìsù)、𤠫𤢂的漢語拼音。


unlistenable

more unlistenable (comparative)
most unlistenable (superlative)

Many older adults find rap music unlistenable.


Manchu

借自满语 ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), 可能源自梵语 मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “文殊菩萨”)。


bein

源自中古英语 been, beene, bene (“亲切的, 慷慨的, 令人舒服的”), 起源未知。 可能源自古诺尔斯语 beinn (“直的, 有利的, 方便的, 友好的, 公平的, 热心的”) ← 原始日耳曼语 *bainaz (“直的”) ← 原始印欧语 *bhei- (“击打”)。 和低地苏格兰语 bein, bien (“条件好的, 舒服的, 富裕的, 舒适的, 令人愉快的”), 冰岛语 beinn (“直的, 直接的”), 挪威语 bein (“直的, 直接的, 容易处理的”)同源。 另见 bain 。


South American

（属于或有关于）南美洲的。

安第斯山脉是一个南美洲的山脉。

The Andes is a South American mountain range.


dickless

懦弱的，没有男子气概的。


American English

1806年 (US), American + English。1892年开始作为形容词使用。

more American English (comparative)
most American English (superlative)

属于、关于美国英语的；用美国英语说或写的。


unified

（学区）提供从幼儿园到高中的教育服务的。


undiscriminating

more undiscriminating (comparative)
most undiscriminating (superlative)

不加区别的，无鉴别能力的。


single-use

一次性的，供一次性使用的。


baby blue

more baby blue (comparative)
most baby blue (superlative)


scariest

scary 的最高级形式。

这是我读过的最恐怖的书之一了！

This is one of the scariest books I have ever read!


NTP

not to press (“不可催促”)之首字母縮略詞：適用於出售給同意延遲交割的經紀人的股票。


unrecognisable

more unrecognisable (comparative)
most unrecognisable (superlative)

To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration.

1952 January，Henry Maxwell，“Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine，頁 57:

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

1960 December，“The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 713:

Standing on the platforms at Derby today, the station is virtually unrecognisable from how it was during the mid-to-late 2000s, when it seemed as if it was in terminal decline.

2019年December4日，Andy Coward，“Derby's crowning achievement”, in Rail，頁 57:


slantindicular

more slantindicular (comparative)
most slantindicular (superlative)

倾斜的（相当于现代英语之slanted）。


POP

post office preferred (“標準信封優待”) 之首字母縮略詞。


anoxic

（病理學）由於氧氣供應減少而遭受痛苦的。


under the weather

/ˈʌndə ðə ˈwɛðə/

/ˈʌndɚ ðə ˈwɛðɚ/

指身體狀況不適，不太舒服的狀態。


cationic

陽離子的；與陽離子有關的


discolored

脫色的，掉色的，變色的；顏色受污染的


sulfuric

硫的，尤指+6化合價硫的


all ears

The students were all ears when they found out the topic of the film was "reproduction." They were disappointed to discover that it was also about fish.

學生們發現這部影片主題是“繁殖”時，都全神貫注。但打開看到是魚的時候，都大失所望。

I am all ears to find out how my car, which used to have a perfectly functional engine, will no longer start.

我很想知道，我的車引擎以前明明很好，為什麼現在發動不了。


paucispiral

動物學：寡旋，指螺殼的口蓋或螺層的旋轉數量


Hakkanese

客家人的，与客家人有关的


cheapo

cheap + -o (“〈口〉描述人品质的后缀”)


dumb-ass

more dumb-ass (comparative)
dumber-ass (comparative)
most dumb-ass (superlative)
dumbest-ass (superlative)

dumbass的另一種拼寫法（笨蛋、傻叉）


analytical

more analytical (comparative)
most analytical (superlative)


Oroqen

可能源自滿語 ᠣᡵᠣᠨᠴᠣ (oronco，“住在山裏的人”)。

鄂倫春人的；與鄂倫春人有關的

鄂倫春語的；與鄂倫春語有關的


mouthed

(用於合成詞) 描述口的形狀。


Devanagari

源自梵語 देवनागरी (devanāgarī)，देव (deva，“神聖的”) + नगर (nagara，“城”)。

/ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/

/ˌdɛvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/

/ˌdeɪvəˈnɑɡəɹi/


Cebuano

/sɛˈbwɑːnəʊ/

宿霧語的，與說宿霧語的人有關的


Marshallese

馬紹爾群島/馬紹爾人/馬紹爾語的


Swazi

源自祖魯語 iSwazi，源自斯威士人早期的酋長名字 Mswati。另寫法源自史瓦濟語 liSwati。

斯威士（語/人）/史瓦濟（語/人）的


Sesotho

/sɛ̀.sʉ́.tʰʉ̀/


Romani

源自羅姆語 romani，romano (“羅姆人的”)的陰性形式 ← rom (“人”)。也見Roma。
與Romanian沒有直接聯繫。


Ingush

源自俄語 Ингуши (Inguši) ← Ангушт (Angušt)，古代印古什人的一個重要定居點。

more Ingush (comparative)
most Ingush (superlative)


Tahitian

塔希提/大溪地（人/語）的


tawdry

tawdrier (comparative)
tawdriest (superlative)


politique

more politique (comparative)
most politique (superlative)


osm

more osm (comparative)
most osm (superlative)


anachronistic

more anachronistic (comparative)
most anachronistic (superlative)


alcoholic

more alcoholic (comparative)
most alcoholic (superlative)

He ordered an alcoholic beverage.

The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic.

這些牡蠣是酸的，含了很多酒。


naif

naifer (comparative)
naifest (superlative)


naïf

借自法語 naïf。native的雙詞。

more naïf (comparative)
most naïf (superlative)


topical

more topical (comparative)
most topical (superlative)

:Template:醫(不可比) 表面的、塗於身體表面的、（藥物）外用的


brusk

brusker (comparative)
more brusk (comparative)
bruskest (superlative)
most brusk (superlative)

brusque的另一種拼寫法


aight

(美國、非裔美國人俗語) all right的合音。


leef

more leef (comparative)
most leef (superlative)


vrot

借自南非語 vrot (“腐爛的”)。

more vrot (comparative)
most vrot (superlative)

The mycologist Raper found and isolated one of the very best strains of penicillin-producing fungus happily growing on a vrot spanspek at his local greengrocer...

1979, South African journal of science (volumes 75-76, page 399)

The leader who was a bit older than the others - his two front teeth were missing - kicked her legs when she caught him and he said she was a vrot banana also because she was a girl also.

1994, Ella Mary Macphail, Ugogo and other stories from South Africa (page 33)


tref

同treyf （不合猶太教禮儀的）。


swart

源自中古英語 swart ← 古英語 sweart ← 原始日耳曼語 *swartaz。

swarter (comparative)
swartest (superlative)

黑色的，黝黑的，黑褐色的

Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be

A nation strange, with visage swart

1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, The Faerie Queene, Book 2

I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face

1819, 約翰·濟慈, Otho the Great, Act II, Scene I, verses 91-92

The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids

[…] unpierced ever

The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.

1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277:

Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”


arty

artier (comparative)
artiest (superlative)


Azerbaijani

/ˌæzəbaɪˈdʒɑːni/

/ˌæzəɹbaɪˈdʒɑːni/


Damask

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Liman

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Myanma

源自緬甸語 မြန်မာ့ (mranma.)。

Myanma Railways


Swiss

源自中古法語 Suisse（1515年左右），Switzer的形直接借自德語。

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Tartar

源自古法語 Tartaire ← 中世紀拉丁語 Tartarus (“韃靼人，人”) ← 古突厥語 Tatar，拼寫受拉丁語 Tartarus (“（希臘神話中的）冥界”)影響，源自古希臘語 Τάρταρος (Tártaros)。

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Tartar customs


Azeri Turkic

Generally he is accounted an Azeri Turkic rather than an Ottoman poet though frequently, like Kadi Biirhaneddin and Fuzuli, he is included in lists of Ottoman Turkish poets.

1973，Kathleen R. F. Burrill，The Quatrains of Nesimî, Fourteenth-century Turkic Hurufi，頁 46:


gey

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(蘇格蘭、愛爾蘭、英格蘭北部) 尚好的 （自18世紀）

They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.

1932, 刘易斯·格拉西克·吉本, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:


acerb

拉丁語 acerbus ← 拉丁語 ācer (“尖的”)；對比法語 acerbe。參見acrid。

acerber (comparative)
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If you put Spirit of Sulphur to the Peruvian Bark, it then becomes very acerb. If you mix Mercury with Spirit of Nitre or Oil of Vitriol whilst it boils, it then is very acerb.

1732，Edward Strother，Prælectiones Pharmaco-mathicæ & medico-practicæ:

As to the somewhat acerb remarks of the member for Jacques Cartier, I may pass them over […]

1909, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Debates: Official Report (volume 1, page 1970)


adolescent

最早見於1482年，源自法語 adolescent ←拉丁語 adolescentem，adolescens的賓格形，adolēscere (“長大，成人”)的現在分詞，源自ad- (“朝，向”) + alēscere (“長大；成熟”)。形容詞義最早見於1785年。

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青春期的，青少年的；未成熟的

(我們能否確認Cowper引文的時間，或提供標題、作者全名和其他詳情？)


airish

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(阿巴拉契亞)(天氣) 有微風的

(阿巴拉契亞) 裝腔作勢的


eterne

源自中古英語 eterne ← 古法語 eterne ← 拉丁語 aeternus。

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The substance is eterne, and bideth so; / Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade, / Doth it consume and into nothing goe ….

And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall / On Mars his Armours, forg'd for proofe Eterne, / With lesse remorse then Pyrrhus bleeding sword / Now falles on Priam.

1602, 威廉·莎士比亞 《哈姆雷特》, First Folio 1621, II.2:


fremed

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horsed

源自中古英語 horsed, i-horsed, yhorsed, y-horsed ← 古英語 horsod, ġehorsod古英語 horsian, ġehorsian (“騎馬”)的過去分詞，等同於horse + -ed。

horsed men


alpinist

The group of Warsaw cavers climbed out of several caves in Poland and of Sistema Cheve using alpinist techniques.

1997, "From the editors," Jaskinie - The Caves (Bulletin of the Caving Commission of Polish Mountaineering Association), no. 7:

The crowns of taller individuals could only be studied from neighbouring trees (climbed using spikes or alpinist ropes).

2001, F. J. Sterck and F. Bongers, "Crown development in tropic rain forest trees," Journal of Ecology, vol. 89, no. 1, page 3:


satiated

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But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.

1922，Ben Travers，章號 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:


satiate

借自拉丁語 satiatus，satiare (“填滿，滿足”)的過去分詞，源自sat + satis (“足夠的”) + satur (“滿的”)。

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scurfy

scurfier (comparative)
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shut up

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She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.

Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.

1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75.

Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.

1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.


sleepless

源自中古英語 slepeles ← 古英語 slǣplēas；等同於sleep + -less。

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I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.

我擔心考試，失眠了一整晚。


speaking

源自中古英語 spekinge, spekynge, spekinde, spekende, spekande, spekand ← 古英語 specende, sprecende ← 原始日耳曼語 *sprekandz，原始日耳曼語 *sprekaną (“說”)的現在分詞。等同於speak + -ing。與低地蘇格蘭語 speikand, speikin, 薩特弗里斯蘭語 spreekend, 西弗里斯蘭語 sprekkend, 荷蘭語 sprekend, 德國低地德語 sprekend,
德語 sprechend同源。

one's normal speaking voice

能說話的
(用於複合詞) 有語言能力的


trading

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a trading company

(我們能否確認John Milton引文的時間，或提供標題、作者全名和其他詳情？)

:Template:舊 貪贓枉法的，腐敗的


tsunamigenic

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venust

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As the infancy of Rome was venust, so was its manhood notably strenuous.


thone

源自中古英語 *thon ← 古英語 þān (“潮濕的，濕潤的；有水的；灌溉的”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *þainaz (“潮濕的”) ← 原始印歐語 *teh₂- (“融化；流動”)。與低地蘇格蘭語 thane, thain (“潮濕的”)同源。與thaw有關。

thoner (comparative)
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heah

(非裔美國人口語) here的非正式寫法。


second to none

Second Merchant: How is the man esteemed here in the city?

1594, William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, act 5, sc. 1:

“[I]f I, in the performance of my work, have been second to none, do you see that you in yours may be equally efficient?”

1877, Anthony Trollope, The Life of Cicero, ch. 11:

The NanShan, he affirmed, was second to none as a sea-boat.

The Afghans have been second to none at small-war tactics ever since they fought the British in the 19th century.

2001 Oct. 1, Yuri Zarakhovich and Alexander Lyakhovski, "A Tough Fight," Time:


hean

源自中古英語 hene ← 古英語 hēan (“下賤的，卑微的”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *hauniz (“低的”) ← 原始印歐語 *kaw- (“羞辱”)。與德語 höhn (“嘲笑的，譏笑的，壞的”), 哥特語 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 (hauns，“卑劣的，卑微的”), 荷蘭語 hoon (“鄙視，羞辱”), 拉脫維亞語 kauns (“恥辱”), 古希臘語 καυνός (kaunós，“壞的”)同源。

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strang

stranger (comparative)
strangest (superlative)

(英格蘭北部、蘇格蘭) 同strong。


swith

源自中古英語 swith ← 古英語 swīþ (“強力的，猛烈的，有力的，活躍的”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *swinþaz (“強的”) ← 原始印歐語 *swento- (“活躍的，健康的”)。與古撒克遜語 swīth, 中古高地德語 swind（現代德語 geschwind (“快的”)）, 中古低地德語 swîde（現代低地德語 swied (“很，十分”)）, 荷蘭語 gezwind (“快的”), 西弗里斯蘭語 swiid (“令人驚歎的，特別的”), 古諾爾斯語 svinnr, 哥特語 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (swinþs，“強的”)同源。與sound有關。

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sooth

源自中古英語 sooth ← 古英語 sōþ (“真實（的）”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *sanþaz (“真實”) ← 原始印歐語 *h₁sónts, *h₁s-ont- (“存在，真實”) ← 原始印歐語 *h₁es- (“是”)。類似古撒克遜語 sōþ (“真實”), 古高地德語 sand (“真實”), 古諾爾斯語 sannr (“真實”), 哥特語 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰 (sunja，“真實”), 古英語 synn (“罪”)。參見sin。

soother (comparative)
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:Template:舊 舒適的，令人高興的

(我們能否確認Milton引文的時間，或提供標題、作者全名和其他詳情？)


twain

源自中古英語 tweyne, tweien, twaine ← 古英語 twēġen m (“二”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *twai ← 原始印歐語 *dwóh₁。與薩特弗里斯蘭語 twäin, 低地德語 twene, 德語 zween, 瑞典語 tvenne同源。參見two。
本詞起源自中古英語詞性失去時期，作為two的形式之一，尤用於名詞後。現代用法留存於欽定版聖經、婚禮詞、詩歌（作韻尾）。


attern

源自中古英語 attern ← 古英語 ǣtren (“有毒的”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *aitrīnaz (“有毒的”)，等同於atter + -en。與中古高地德語 eiterin (“有毒的”)同源。參見atter。

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addle

源自中古英語 adel (“腐爛的”) ← 古英語 adel, adela (“泥潭，水池，液肥”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *adalaz, *adalô (“牛糞，液肥”)。類似低地蘇格蘭語 adill, 北弗里斯蘭語 ethel (“尿”), 薩特弗里斯蘭語 adel (“糞便”), 中古低地德語 adele (“泥，液肥”) (荷蘭語 aal (“水窪”)), 古瑞典語 adel (“尿”)，巴伐利亞語 Adel (“液肥”)。

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addle eggs

addle brains


andro

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"I like the young, andro look, but I've dated across the board—butches, femmes, trannies—and that really bothers Clara. All her girlfriends in the past have been pretty much straight." Kim offers a rueful little laugh.