fifty-fifth

The answer appears on the fifty-fifth page of the book.

She finished fifty-fifth in the race.

她以第五十五名完成比賽。


fifty-sixth

The answer appears on the fifty-sixth page of the book.

She finished fifty-sixth in the race.

她以第五十六名完成比賽。


fifty-seventh

The answer appears on the fifty-seventh page of the book.

She finished fifty-seventh in the race.

她以第五十七名完成比賽。


fifty-eighth

The answer appears on the fifty-eighth page of the book.

She finished fifty-eighth in the race.

她以第五十八名完成比賽。


fifty-ninth

The answer appears on the fifty-ninth page of the book.

She finished fifty-ninth in the race.

她以第五十九名完成比賽。


sixty-first

The answer appears on the sixty-first page of the book.

She finished sixty-first in the race.

她以第六十一名完成比賽。


sixty-second

The answer appears on the sixty-second page of the book.

She finished sixty-second in the race.

她以第六十二名完成比賽。


sixty-third

The answer appears on the sixty-third page of the book.

She finished sixty-third in the race.

她以第六十三名完成比賽。


sixty-fourth

The answer appears on the sixty-fourth page of the book.

She finished sixty-fourth in the race.

她以第六十四名完成比賽。


sixty-fifth

The answer appears on the sixty-fifth page of the book.

She finished sixty-fifth in the race.

她以第六十五名完成比賽。


sixty-sixth

The answer appears on the sixty-sixth page of the book.

She finished sixty-sixth in the race.

她以第六十六名完成比賽。

Though in his sixty-sixth year, I have never heard him express any dissatisfaction at the occasional hardships which we have had to encounter.

虽然他今年六十六岁了，但我从未听到他对我们偶尔遇到的困难表示过任何不满。

1912，Sir Arthur Conan Doyle，The Lost World [失落的世界]:


sixty-seventh

The answer appears on the sixty-seventh page of the book.

She finished sixty-seventh in the race.

她以第六十七名完成比賽。


sixty-eighth

The answer appears on the sixty-eighth page of the book.

She finished sixty-eighth in the race.

她以第六十八名完成比賽。


sixty-ninth

The answer appears on the sixty-ninth page of the book.

She finished sixty-ninth in the race.

她以第六十九名完成比賽。


seventy-first

The answer appears on the seventy-first page of the book.

She finished seventy-first in the race.

她以第七十一名完成比賽。


seventy-second

The answer appears on the seventy-second page of the book.

She finished seventy-second in the race.

她以第七十二名完成比賽。


seventy-third

The answer appears on the seventy-third page of the book.

She finished seventy-third in the race.

她以第七十三名完成比賽。


seventy-fourth

The answer appears on the seventy-fourth page of the book.

She finished seventy-fourth in the race.

她以第七十四名完成比賽。


seventy-fifth

The answer appears on the seventy-fifth page of the book.

She finished seventy-fifth in the race.

她以第七十五名完成比賽。


seventy-sixth

The answer appears on the seventy-sixth page of the book.

She finished seventy-sixth in the race.

她以第七十六名完成比賽。


seventy-seventh

The answer appears on the seventy-seventh page of the book.

She finished seventy-seventh in the race.

她以第七十七名完成比賽。


seventy-eighth

The answer appears on the seventy-eighth page of the book.

She finished seventy-eighth in the race.

她以第七十八名完成比賽。


seventy-ninth

The answer appears on the seventy-ninth page of the book.

She finished seventy-ninth in the race.

她以第七十九名完成比賽。


eighty-first

The answer appears on the eighty-first page of the book.

She finished eighty-first in the race.

她以第八十一名完成比賽。


eighty-second

The answer appears on the eighty-second page of the book.

She finished eighty-second in the race.

她以第八十二名完成比賽。


eighty-third

The answer appears on the eighty-third page of the book.

She finished eighty-third in the race.

她以第八十三名完成比賽。


eighty-fourth

The answer appears on the eighty-fourth page of the book.

She finished eighty-fourth in the race.

她以第八十四名完成比賽。


eighty-fifth

The answer appears on the eighty-fifth page of the book.

She finished eighty-fifth in the race.

她以第八十五名完成比賽。


eighty-sixth

The answer appears on the eighty-sixth page of the book.

She finished eighty-sixth in the race.

她以第八十六名完成比賽。


eighty-seventh

The answer appears on the eighty-seventh page of the book.

She finished eighty-seventh in the race.

她以第八十七名完成比賽。


eighty-eighth

The answer appears on the eighty-eighth page of the book.

She finished eighty-eighth in the race.

她以第八十八名完成比賽。


eighty-ninth

The answer appears on the eighty-ninth page of the book.

She finished eighty-ninth in the race.

她以第八十九名完成比賽。


ninety-first

The answer appears on the ninety-first page of the book.

She finished ninety-first in the race.

她以第九十一名完成比賽。


ninety-second

The answer appears on the ninety-second page of the book.

She finished ninety-second in the race.

她以第九十二名完成比賽。


ninety-third

The answer appears on the ninety-third page of the book.

She finished ninety-third in the race.

她以第九十三名完成比賽。


ninety-fourth

The answer appears on the ninety-fourth page of the book.

She finished ninety-fourth in the race.

她以第九十四名完成比賽。


ninety-fifth

The answer appears on the ninety-fifth page of the book.

She finished ninety-fifth in the race.

她以第九十五名完成比賽。


ninety-sixth

The answer appears on the ninety-sixth page of the book.

She finished ninety-sixth in the race.

她以第九十六名完成比賽。


ninety-seventh

The answer appears on the ninety-seventh page of the book.

She finished ninety-seventh in the race.

她以第九十七名完成比賽。


ninety-eighth

The answer appears on the ninety-eighth page of the book.

She finished ninety-eighth in the race.

她以第九十八名完成比賽。


ninety-ninth

The answer appears on the ninety-ninth page of the book.

She finished ninety-ninth in the race.

她以第九十九名完成比賽。


zeroth

/ˈzɪɹ(ˌ)oʊθ/

The zeroth order polynomial approximation is constant.

A and C are in equilibrium following the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.

根據熱力學第零定律，A和C處於平衡狀態。


allowed

more allowed (comparative)
most allowed (superlative)

得到允許的，獲准的 （自16世紀）

承認屬實的 （自15世紀）


totalled

more totalled (comparative)
most totalled (superlative)

Several totalled cars were being picked over for usable parts.

幾輛損壞的汽車被挑選出來，從中拆解出可用的部分。


cooled

通過某種方式而被冷卻的（常用於複合詞）

a water-cooled engine

（憤怒）鎮靜下來的；（熱情）冷卻下來的


waved

more waved (comparative)
most waved (superlative)

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

邊緣處有連續彎曲或切口的


Tangut

源自中古蒙古語所用的外名，可能對應古典蒙古語ᠲᠠᠩᠭᠤᠳ (taŋɣud)，明朝時的《元朝秘史》按早期官話轉寫作唐兀_惕（/*tʰaŋ(ŋ)ut/）。該名稱可追溯至公元8世紀毗伽可汗石碑上的古突厥語 𐱃𐰭𐰆𐱃 (t¹ŋut¹)。英語詞彙與其他歐洲語言相似，衍生自1250年代鲁不鲁乞著作中的中世紀拉丁語 Tangut（萊頓手稿中作 *Tangunt）。16世紀晚期再通過理查德·哈克卢伊特的翻譯進入英語。

more Tangut (comparative)
most Tangut (superlative)


navy blue

more navy blue (comparative)
most navy blue (superlative)


IG

in-game (“遊戲中”)之首字母縮略詞。


therapeutic

源自新拉丁語 therapeuticus (“治療的”)，源自古希臘語 θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós，“幫助的，熱情的，治愈的”)，源自θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs，“侍者”)，源自θεραπεύω (therapeúō，“服侍，服務；治愈”)。

more therapeutic (comparative)
most therapeutic (superlative)

/θɛɹəˈpjuːtɪk/

His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.

2009, Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process


Iranian

/ɪˈɹɑːni.ən/


Bahamian

more Bahamian (comparative)
most Bahamian (superlative)


Kosovar

借自阿爾巴尼亞語 kosovar。

more Kosovar (comparative)
most Kosovar (superlative)


metachemical

more metachemical (comparative)
most metachemical (superlative)

元化學的；原子結構化學的

metachemical metamorphism

The greater part of this is in comparative thermal equilibrium, and so we should not expect metachemical change to occur.

1910，Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News - Volume 33，頁 xxii:

Alfred Nordmann, in Chapter 19, draws on the work of Emile Meyerson and Gaston Bachelard — two philosophers with some genuine chemical knowledge — to articulate a more general, a richer, and a metachemical notion of substance.

2011，Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre，Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, →ISBN，頁 15:

This is by no means reducing chemistry to a sub-division of physics, and even less making it a defenceless victim of Don Quixote-like pseudomathematical and metachemical theorists; a fundamental knowledge of natural history is still an essential condition for any further progress in an understanding of chemical bonding.

2012，C.K. Jorgensen，Inorganic Complexes, →ISBN:


labyrinthe

more labyrinthe (comparative)
most labyrinthe (superlative)

It was to be added at the same time that even if his silence had been labyrinthe—which was absurd in view of all the other things too he couldn't possibly have spoken of—this was exactly what must suit her, since it fell under the head of the plea she had just uttered to Susie.


supercelestial

more supercelestial (comparative)
most supercelestial (superlative)

Zeus directly produces the supercelestial gods, divided into Olympians and Titans.

2022，John Opsopaus，The Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism: A Practical Guide to the Restored Pagan Religion of George Gemistos Plethon，Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:


Sofian

關於或屬於索非亞（保加利亞首都）的


Xth

第十；tenth之縮寫。


pluricellular

Fusion events in vivo, particularly in embryonic development, often involve the purse-string contraction of a pluricellular actomyosin cable at the free edge.

2015，V. Nier, M. Deforet, G. Duclos, H.G. Yevick, O. Cochet-Escartin, P. Marcq, P. Silberzan，“Tissue fusion over non-adhering surfaces”, in PNAS，卷 112:


basinasal

連接顱底點和鼻根或與其相關的


IRL

His IRL girlfriend.


IE

IE linguistics


classroomlike

more classroomlike (comparative)
most classroomlike (superlative)


nonclassroom

不屬於教室的，和教室無關的


unlocked

locked

不受任何特定運營商的約束的

不受鎖保護的，沒有鎖上的

an unlocked door

an unlocked computer file

不受任何特定運營商的約束的

an unlocked iPhone


terefah

treyf的另一種拼寫法

Of course, one might say that since we are all mortal, life itself is a terminal illness! That would put us all in the category of terefah.

2003，Elliot N. Dorff，Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics, →ISBN，頁 242:


terephah

treyf的另一種拼寫法


trafe

treyf的另一種拼寫法


traife

treyf的另一種拼寫法

Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).

2015年February27日，Laura Kipnis，“Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education:


traif

treyf的另一種拼寫法

Recently my wife caught me using the pot for my traif soup.

最近，我的妻子發現我用鍋煮不符合猶太飲食法的湯。

2007年March18日，Randy Cohen，“Tuition Trick”, in New York Times:


trayf

treyf的另一種拼寫法

To the preparation, then: vegetables softened in butter, lots of Guinness, thick chunks of second-cut brisket — breast deckle, as it’s called in some of New York’s better precincts (where trotter gear, by the by, is known as trayf city).

2009年February22日，Sam Sifton，“Put a Lid on It”, in New York Times:


treyfe

treyf的另一種拼寫法


treifa

treyf的另一種拼寫法


treife

treyf的另一種拼寫法


treif

treyf的另一種拼寫法


Baedekerian

more Baedekerian (comparative)
most Baedekerian (superlative)

和卡爾·貝德克爾（Karl Baedeker，1801–1859，德國出版商，或其推出的系列權威旅遊指南）有關的


sacrilegious

對照sacrilege、拉丁語 sacrilegus。來自拉丁語 sacer + legō (“偷竊聖物”)。

more sacrilegious (comparative)
most sacrilegious (superlative)

At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.

1831，Letitia Elizabeth Landon，Romance and Reality，卷 3，頁 26:


postcardlike

more postcardlike (comparative)
most postcardlike (superlative)


GG

通常搭配一些新加坡式英語的助詞使用，特別是 liao。

完蛋，遭殃（可能會有不理想的結果，而人無法改變或逃避）

Physics test today was out of the world…Honestly I think I’m going to fail big time…I didn’t know I had to study statics! What’s the point in testing LAST year’s work? Like wtf lawl…So i think I flung that section…GG liao lor…

2007 March 7, Thomas Kwok, Camping Grounds 2.0, What a week, accessed on 2015-10-22:

Liverpool GG liao la. Steven Jialat hamstring problem. Dirk Kuyt ankle problem. take west ham win this saturday.

2010 November 18, QQfufa, Hardware Zone Singapore, Liverpool GG liao la, accessed on 2015-10-22:

GG liao.. I can't get in to my account liao ... Keep say someone inside...

2013 December 23, BBdotcom Enterprise, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/BBD0TC0MEnterprise/posts/446296825469807, accessed on 2015-10-22:

Gg liao moi go Malaysia forgot to off my data roaming Den i check singtel app saying 1mb data roaming = $25.

2015 October 20, Kitaro9202, Hardware Zone Singapore, GG liao moi go Malaysia forgot off my data roaming, accessed on 2015-10-22:


aleger

源自法語 allègre, earlier alègre，源自拉丁語 alacer。

more aleger (comparative)
most aleger (superlative)

Certainly this berry coffa, the root and leaf betel, the leaf tobacco, and the tear of poppy (opium), of which the Turks are great takers (supposing it expelleth all fear), do all condense the spirits, and make them strong and aleger.


pusil

more pusil (comparative)
most pusil (superlative)

a pusil and a thin soft air


irrevisable

不可修改的，不可訂正的，不可改變的


revisable

more revisable (comparative)
most revisable (superlative)

可修改的，可訂正的，可改變的

if one believes it possible that logic will turn out to be empirically revisable, one surely must believe it possible that logic will be empirically revised[…]

2008年January30日，Lisa Warenski，“Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies，卷 142, 期 3, →DOI:


appellant

源自盎格魯-諾曼語，源自古法語 apelant。

Firſt, heauen be the record to my ſpeech,
In the deuotion of a ſubiects loue,
Tendering the precious ſafetie of my Prince,
And free from other misbegotten hate,
Come I appealant to rhis [sic] Princely preſence.

1595 December 9 (first known performance)，William Shakespeare，“The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio)，London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]，頁 23，列 1:


decollete

派生自法語 décolleté，源自動詞 décolleter (“露出脖子或領口”)。

more decollete (comparative)
most decollete (superlative)


décolletée

more décolletée (comparative)
most décolletée (superlative)

décolleté的另一種寫法

THE dress is of pink silk; the corsage décolletée, pointed, and demi-busque, with a berthe of silk tulle, made in small puffs, sewed upon Lyons tulle, with sleeves the same, followed by a lace four inches wide.
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

1858, Henry Mills Alden, Harper’s Monthly Magazine, p144


easy peasy lemon squeezy

為easy peasy的擴展，由1950年代的Sqezy（英國的洗碗精品牌，帶有檸檬香氣）廣告而來，或直到1980年代才最早出現在英國兒童中的俚語。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-easy peasy lemon squeezy.wav


Gaddafist

和卡扎菲／格達費／卡達菲的政策和政治哲學有關的；和卡扎菲主義者／格達費主義者有關的


Coeur d'Alene

源自法語 cœur (“心，心臟”) + d’ (“……的”) + alêne (“錐子”)。


tristy

more tristy (comparative)
most tristy (superlative)


æquivalent

more æquivalent (comparative)
most æquivalent (superlative)


submergent

Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to \"undrown\" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.

1971，George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff，Landforms，頁 143:


truer

true 的比較級形式。


questioning

源自 question + -ing（名词经由中古英語 questionyng）。

more questioning (comparative)
most questioning (superlative)

/ˈkwɛʃ.t͡ʃə.nɪŋ/

Why do you have a questioning look? Are you puzzled about something?

你為什麼擺出一副質疑的眼神？你是對什麼事情感到困惑嗎？

不確定自己的性取向和／或性別認同的

We entertain the boy and it becomes more evident that his dad is trans and he is questioning; my coworker keeps frowning about it.

2020年February4日，“Transitioning To Some New Protocols”, in Not Always Right，存檔自the original on 2021-01-29:


slighter

slight 的比較級形式。


severer

severe 的比較級形式。


caned

more caned (comparative)
most caned (superlative)

上頭的，因飲酒或吸毒而處於興奮狀態的


incanescent

源自拉丁語 incanescens，incanescere (“变灰色”) 的现在分词。

more incanescent (comparative)
most incanescent (superlative)


colder

cold 的比較級形式。


denser

dense 的比較級形式。


quietest

quiet的最高級形式。


imaginate

more imaginate (comparative)
most imaginate (superlative)


imaginant

拉丁語 imaginans，imaginari 的現在分詞；對比法語 imaginant。

more imaginant (comparative)
most imaginant (superlative)

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnənt/

the force of Imagination is , either upon the Body Imaginant , or upon another Body

1631，Francis [Bacon]，“(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […]，第3rd版, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:


vaguer

vague 的比較級形式。


annihilable

源自拉丁語 annihilābilis，源自 annihilō。等價於 annihilate + -able。

more annihilable (comparative)
most annihilable (superlative)


habile

繼承自中古英語 habil，源自古法語 habile，源自拉丁語 habilis (“合適的，適當的”)，源自 habeō (“處理，應付”)。

more habile (comparative)
most habile (superlative)


suffisant

more suffisant (comparative)
most suffisant (superlative)


crystallizable

more crystallizable (comparative)
most crystallizable (superlative)


stunted

more stunted (comparative)
most stunted (superlative)


otarine

Apart from having pinnae on the external ears, the otarine seals can at once be distinguished on land from phocids by their method of locomotion.
除了外耳上有耳廓外，在陸地上可以藉由運動方式立即將海獅（字面意思：海獅科的鰭足類動物）與海豹區分開來。

1972, David Edward Gaskin, Whales, Dolphins and Seals (page 153)


vaster

vast 的比較級形式。


apiculate

more apiculate (comparative)
most apiculate (superlative)


alopecic

more alopecic (comparative)
most alopecic (superlative)


steadier

steady 的比較級形式。


exasperating

more exasperating (comparative)
most exasperating (superlative)

As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.

1945 September and October，C. Hamilton Ellis，“Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine，頁 249:


exasperated

more exasperated (comparative)
most exasperated (superlative)

/ɪɡˈzæspəɹeɪtɪd/


disconcerting

more disconcerting (comparative)
most disconcerting (superlative)

/ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪŋ/

unsettling

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

troubling

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

upsetting

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

使人感到不安/困惑/尷尬的

Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.

即使有安全带，在那么高的地方失去抓地力也是令人不安的。

"You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."

1920，Herman Cyril McNeile，章號 1, in Bulldog Drummond:


troubling

more troubling (comparative)
most troubling (superlative)


unexplored

more unexplored (comparative)
most unexplored (superlative)


de luxe

deluxe的另一種拼寫法


spectacled

看起來像戴了眼鏡一樣的（尤指動物）


stellar

借自拉丁語 stēllāris。

more stellar (comparative)
most stellar (superlative)

The actress gave a stellar performance.

Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.

几年前，有数百名有才华但名气不大的音乐家在全国巡回演出，演出费用并不高。

1931，Music and Dance，卷 21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co., →OCLC，頁 27，列 2:

Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.

1970，Hardware Age，卷 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC，頁 8，列 1:

Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.

2012，Linda A. Jenkins，“What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker，Gold Alliance Group, →ISBN，頁 1:


plagiarized

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clearest

clear的最高級形式。


rawer

Some tracks even rely solely on electric guitars and drums, giving them a rawer, demolike feel that puts the burden of success squarely on the singer's shoulders.

1994, CD review (volume 10, issues 7-12)


sweeter

sweet 的比較級形式。


nicer

nice 的比較級形式。


cleanest

clean的最高級形式。

Chief executive Andrew Haines said: "Rail is already the cleanest and greenest mode of transporting large numbers of people and goods, but we're committed to cutting our carbon footprint even further. [...]."

2020年November18日，“Network News: Network Rail sets science-based global warming targets”, in Rail，頁 22:


imposable

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exogamous

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excusable

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exclamative

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inoxidizable

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fabular

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intrahepatic

/ˌɪntɹəhəˈpætɪk/


accessorized

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most accessorized (superlative)

She was tastefully accessorized in matching scarf and gloves.

她穿着相配的围巾和手套，很有品位。


déclassé

借自法語 déclassé。

more déclassé (comparative)
most déclassé (superlative)

女性主體使用 déclassée。

Having married a plebian and so become déclassée, the daughter of a patrician was barred by the patrician matrons from sacrifices at the shrine of Patrician Chastity ‘in the cattle market by the round temple of Hercules’.

一位贵族的女儿嫁给了一个平民并因此成为下等人，贵族妇女们禁止她在“大力士圆形神庙旁的牛市”的贵族贞洁神殿里献祭。

2007，John Burrow，A History of Histories，Penguin, 出版於 2009，頁 110:


déclassée

more déclassée (comparative)
most déclassée (superlative)

déclassé的另一種寫法（用於女性）


raked

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life-or-death

生死攸關的；對生存至關重要的

Good camoflouge is life or death for many animals in the wild.

好的伪装对于许多野外动物的生存来说是至关重要的。

Ascending Mount Everest can be life or death for an inexperienced climber.

攀登珠穆朗玛峰对于没有经验的登山者来说可能是极其危险的。

Obtaining financing was a life-or-death matter for the research.

获得资金对这项研究来说是生死攸关的问题。


unsubstantiated

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Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.

2018，James Lambert，“Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography，卷 31, 期 4, →DOI，頁 487:


Aleut

源自俄語 алеу́т (aleút)，可能源自當地土著詞彙，可能是阿留申語 allíthuh (“社群”) 或楚科奇語 aliat (“島”)。


vandalised

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The community worked to clean up the vandalised neighborhood.

社群努力清理被破坏的街区。


vandalized

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The community worked to clean up the vandalized neighborhood.

社群努力清理被破坏的街区。


abbreviative

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amated

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and at som tyme they were so amated that aythir toke others swerde in the stede of his owne.

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:


climatological

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acquisite

借自拉丁語 acquisītus (“獲得的”)，源自拉丁語 acquirere。


stigmatized

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proteic

對照法語 protéique。參見 protein、proteinic。源自古希臘語 πρωτεῖος (prōteîos) 的詞幹 + 後綴 -ic。


solidary

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bioluminescent

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neonazi

“Miller launched the #SayYesToHate campaign the night before Trans Day of Remembrance in 2020, and last month took to defending the neonazi activist James Goddard over an arrest for anti-LGBTQ Twitter posts,” she adds.

2023年February17日，Brenna Ehrlich，“Brianna Ghey’s Vigils Have Become Protests — But to Friends, She Was Just ‘Bri’”, in Rolling Stone:


neo-Nazist

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neo-Nazi

出自法語 néonazi（1952年），用于描述将自己视为纳粹意识形态的信徒或具有类似意识形态的社会运动。这个词后来在整个西方世界传播开来，得到了更广泛的使用。


rosier

rosy 的比較級形式。


Calvinist

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satirique

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satiric

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satirical

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/səˈtɪɹɪkəl/

Spitting Image was a famous satirical television program.

Spitting Image 是一个著名的讽刺电视节目。

Given his remarks in The English People about the dangers of Standard English, and the fact that the satirical Newspeak of Nineteen Eighty-Four is an engineered language[…]

2000年October15日，John E. Joseph，Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language, →ISBN，頁 155:


politicised

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politicized

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(人) 具有政治意識，或活躍於政治的


casualized

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scrotal

Male maturity is evident from descent of the testes; adult males are scrotal year-round, whereas subadult males are partially or nonscrotal.

从睾丸的下垂可以看出雄性个体的成熟；成年雄性个体的阴囊全年都可见，而亚成年雄性个体的阴囊部分可见或不可见。

2008，Melissa A. Hillegass et al.，“The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology，卷 19, 期 5, →DOI，頁s 1006–1011:


atmospheric

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/ˌætməsˈfɛɹɪk/

a dark atmospheric thriller


atmospherical

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HIV positive

感染HIV的，HIV陽性的


HIV negative

未感染HIV的，HIV陰性的

I was lucky to test HIV negative after not having used condoms consistently with multiple partners.

我一直和多個性伴侶做愛不帶套，很幸運檢出HIV陰性。


Romanic

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Romance

源自古法語 romanz (“（法國的）通俗語言”)，源自晚期拉丁語 rōmānicē，源自拉丁語 rōmānicus < rōmānus + -icus。自17世紀開始，意思擴展到所有衍生自拉丁語的語言。

In this paper we will concentrate on the problem posed by Iberian Romance languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish), …

Eulàlia Bonet and Joan Mascaró, On the representation of contrasting rhotics, in: 1997, Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front (eds.), Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major Iberian Languages, p. 103ff., here p. 103:


Romantic

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Obama-esque

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‘24’ presidential story line has Obama-esque feel / A youngish, African-American politician becomes president. He’s relatively untested and rode to the highest office in the land on a wave of goodwill — but is he ready for the job? Does it sound like the hypothetical presidency of Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois’ own presidential hopeful?

2007年January21日，Chicago Tribune，160th year, 期 21, section 7，頁 16:

John McCain’s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman。”

2007年March7日，radaronline.com（被引）, “E-Opinion: The best of the political blogs”, in Daily News，頁 27:

[Mitt] Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the GOP another look.

2008年January2日，David Brooks，“If Romney wins, so will Democrats”, in Intelligencer Journal，214th year, 期 168, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers Inc.，頁 A10:

After beginning with some more high-minded, even Obama-esque comments about what our country is, [Joe] Biden turned to the coronavirus.

2020年August22日，Aaron Blake，“Democrats’ four big takeaways”, in Star Tribune，卷 XXXIX, 期 140，頁 A5:


Obamaesque

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He’s [W. Lane Startin] a top Democratic candidate at U4prez.com, a Web site for those who dream of one day holding the nation’s premier political title. Since joining the site last month, Startin’s meteoric rise can be described only as Obamaesque.

2007年March13日，Matt Christensen，“Hail to the chief: Twin Falls man has (virtual) aspirations”, in Times-News，頁 D5:

[John C.] Turner, who lives in Cumberland on Vancouver Island, has joined his joke-party’s horny Rhinos Redux comeback. He’s trumpeting an Obamaesque campaign promise of “change you can’t believe in.”

2008年March1日，Doug Ward，“Rhino party wants to abolish the environment”, in The Vancouver Sun，頁 B8:

While campaigning in Pennsylvania last week, presidential hopeful Barack Obama bowled a 37 and the world has pretty much flipped on its head as a result.[…]I once contemplated ending my current relationship based on an Obamaesque performance by the GF at a bowling outing.

2008年April9日，Pete Cunningham，“Don’t let bowling ability skew opinions”, in The Homer Index，卷 136, 期 15，頁 four:

“Critics say that my plan is too big, that it costs $1.9 trillion,” was [Joe] Biden’s Obamaesque reply to questions regarding his $2 trillion plan.

2021年March2日，David Harsanyi，“It’s Christmas for Democrats”, in The Star Democrat，卷 220, 期 136, Easton, Md.，頁 A4:


modernised

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contested

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debated

disputed

有爭議的；尚處於討論中的

有爭議的；尚處於討論中的


mineralized

more mineralized (comparative)
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vicariate

more vicariate (comparative)
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argumentless

沒有自變量的；沒有引數的


fraidy

fraidier (comparative)
fraidiest (superlative)

比較級和最高級形式非常罕用。


memorisable

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memorizable

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Egyptological

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egyptological

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Ægyptological

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triff

As I remember it, Elite screwed up the first time it had a go at this one, and ended up having to get Gargoyle (who?) to cobble something together in about two weeks or something ridiculous. You wouldn't believe it, though. This one's triff through and through.

1989, Jonathan Davies, Scooby-Doo (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 46)

Our daughter thinks you're wonderful. “Cool” I think was the adjective she used. […] Or maybe it was “triff”.


Maghrebin

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Maghrebi

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pharmacologic

/ˌfɑɹməkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪk/


industrialised

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industrializing

more industrializing (comparative)
most industrializing (superlative)

正經歷工業化的；變得更加工業化的

[T]he Lunar Society of Birmingham […] aimed to develop knowledge useful to an industrialising society and included among its luminaries the potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95), the physician William Withering (1741–99), the chemist Joseph Priestly and James Watt.

1997，Roy Porter，The Greatest Benefit to Mankind，Folio Society, 出版於 2016，頁 247:


aeriated

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Calm down! There's no point getting aeriated about it.

冷靜！對這件事激動是沒有意義的。


thrilled

more thrilled (comparative)
most thrilled (superlative)

On the phone, he sounded thrilled about the baby.

电话里，他对孩子的到来感到很兴奋。

Ben was thrilled to lead the game.

Ben 很高兴能够领导比赛。


源自HTTP狀態碼 404。當伺服器／服務器無法為客戶端正常提供網頁訊息，或是無法回應且不知原因時，就會返回此代碼。

/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

找不到（尤其是網際網路／互聯網上的網頁）

Bill was 404 all morning.

整個早上都找不到比爾人。


publique

more publique (comparative)
most publique (superlative)

public的棄用形式。


Gujarati

借自古吉拉特語 ગુજરાતી (gujrātī)。

/ˌɡʊd͡ʒəˈrɑːti/


sombrer

sombre 的比較級形式。


triturated

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fleetfooted

more fleetfooted (comparative)
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Abaza

借自阿巴扎語 абаза (ābāzā)。參見俄語 абазин (abazin)。

阿巴扎人的；阿巴扎語的 （19世紀中葉）


towards

繼承自中古英語 towardes，繼承自古英語 tōweardes、tōwærdes，等價於 toward + -s (副詞後綴)。

[tʰə̥ˈwɔːdz]

[tʰə̥ˈwɔɹ̠d̠z]

[tʰw̥ɔɹ̠d̠z]


worthful

more worthful (comparative)
most worthful (superlative)


meeter

meet 的比較級形式。


Cænozoic

The Cænozoic history of the Cordilleran region will be given in its proper connection.

科迪勒拉地區的新生代歷史將以其適當的聯繫給出。

1887，Alexander Winchell，章號 V, in Geological Studies，S. C. Griggs and Company，頁 441:


Cainozoic

We have treated in the preceding chapters of the Tertiary or Cainozoic strata […]

我們在前面的章節中已經討論過第三紀或新生代地層

1874，查爾斯·萊爾，The Student’s Elements of Geology:


juxtaposed

juxtaposed pictures


de jure

源自非同化借詞，源自拉丁語 dē jūre (字面意思是“根據法律”)。

/deɪ ˈd͡ʒʊɹi/

/deɪ ˈd͡ʒʊəɹeɪ/

/deɪ ˈd͡ʒʊəɹɪ/

/diː ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/


lived

a short-lived recycling scheme


muter

mute 的比較級形式。


taxonomic

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

1992年，魯道夫馬蒂亞斯舒斯特，The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian，卷 V, 伊州芝加哥: 菲爾德自然史博物館, →ISBN，頁 vii:


sulfurized

硫化過的；用硫或二氧化硫處理/反應過的


plisse

借自法語 plissé。

(織物) 經處理可永久起褶的


octogonal

more octogonal (comparative)
most octogonal (superlative)


rich as Croesus

非常富有（字面意思是「像克羅伊斯一樣富有」）


augmentative

繼承自中古英語 augmentatif，源自中古法語 augmentatif，源自晚期拉丁語 augmentāt-，augmentāre 的詞幹。


anthropological

more anthropological (comparative)
most anthropological (superlative)

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

2012 March-April，John T. Jost，“Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist，卷 100, 期 2，存檔自the original on 2017-06-21，頁 162:


anthropologic

more anthropologic (comparative)
most anthropologic (superlative)

在《當代美國英語語料庫》中，此寫法的常用度不及 anthropological 的百分之一。


Thracian

/ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/


unexplained

Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.

1961 October，“The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 593:


unexplainable

more unexplainable (comparative)
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semirounded

有點圓的；既不是完全的圓形也不帶有稜角的


Sumatran

Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)


Sulawesian

more Sulawesian (comparative)
most Sulawesian (superlative)


Bornean

To him it seemed that the Bornean rainforests, the tallest on Earth, were places that had: 'remained untouched and unchanged since remote geological epochs[.]'

2018，Tim Flannery，Europe: A Natural History，頁 55:


banged

more banged (comparative)
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Cyprian

(蕩婦)： 古代塞浦路斯崇拜阿芙洛狄忒。

more Cyprian (comparative)
most Cyprian (superlative)


encroaching

She could hardly see anything in the encroaching darkness.

在逐渐逼近的黑暗中，她几乎看不到任何东西。


First Nations

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


supervenient

源自拉丁語 supervenient-，superveniens 的詞幹，supervenio (“衝過； 突然到來”) 的現在時分詞。

more supervenient (comparative)
most supervenient (superlative)

If mental properties are supervenient on physical properties, people with identical bodies will also have identical minds.

如果精神屬性隨附於物理屬性，那麼具有相同身體的人也將具有相同的思想。

隨之而來的，隨後發生的，尤其是在沒有因果關係的情況下


violenter

violent 的比較級形式。


weaselier

weasely 的比較級形式。


weaseliest

weasely的最高級形式。


ascendent

more ascendent (comparative)
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Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, […] no man could possibly hold an ascendent position.
如果沒有某種說服或反駁他人的能力，沒有為自己辯護的能力， […] 沒有人能夠佔據優勢的地位。

1846-1856, George Grote, History of Greece


Marcan

Markan的另一種寫法


Corean

Korean的古舊形式。


riffed

Several ships could be sunk by the copious tears being shed by riffed reservists.

被裁的预备役军人流下的大量眼泪可能会击沉几艘船。

1958，Air Force Magazine - Volume 41，頁 86:

Riffed teachers are unlikely to return to teaching, for they often have found other challenging, financially rewarding work that they might otherwise never have tried.

被裁的教师不太可能重返教学岗位，因为他们经常能找到其他具有挑战性、金钱回报丰厚的工作，不然的话，那可能是他们从未尝试去找过。

1987，Nathalie Jean Gehrke，On being a teacher，頁 93:

Years ago, my job at an employment outplacement firm was to train and counsel groups of recently riffed employees.

几年前我在一家职业介绍公司上班，工作内容是对最近被裁的员工进行培训和咨询。

2008，Nancy Daniel Wesson，Moving Your Aging Parents, →ISBN:


Dagestani

/ˌdæɡɪˈstɑːni/


undead

繼承自中古英語 undede，等價於 un- + dead。最早可考的使用見於1400年左右，名詞用法則起自20世紀早期。

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

不死的 （已死亡但还能活动的）

When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.

2018年November27日，April Wolfe，“Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club，存檔自the original on 2019-11-04:


stinky

繼承自中古英語 stinky、stynky，等價於 stink + -y。對照荷蘭語 stinkig (“臭的，骯髒的，腐爛的”)、德語 stinkig (“臭的”)、漢斯立克語 stinkich。

stinkier (comparative)
more stinky (comparative)
stinkiest (superlative)
most stinky (superlative)

What's that stinky smell?

壞的，不好的，不受歡迎的

[…] she walked over to the table and switched off the Walkman as she sat down.

1991, Theresa P. Gladden, Romancing Susan, Bantam Books, ISBN 055344123X, page 37,

“School all year round.” The father groaned. “What a good idea.”

2003, Betty Levin, Shoddy Cove, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-052272-0, page 151,

The binky drifted up and far away,

2007, Aletha V. Smithson, “Pacifier Breaking” (poem), in As He Was Known, AuthorHouse, ISBN 1-4259-7805-3, page 172,


Baháʼí

借自古典波斯語 بهائی (bahā'ī)。

巴哈伊信仰的信眾對宗教術語有一套偏好的正字法；本拼寫即為他們較常使用的版本。


benefic

more benefic (comparative)
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affulgent

more affulgent (comparative)
most affulgent (superlative)


converted

He was a converted Jew, living in a converted chapel.

他是一名皈依的猶太教徒，住在一座經改建的會堂裡。

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

提到今天的银行业，人们就会想到高耸的摩天大楼里，穿着灰色西装的男人。然而在旧金山、纽约和伦敦的改建仓库和时髦办公室中，它的未来新形态正在悄然产生：在那里，穿着牛仔裤和T恤的时髦年轻人挤在笔记本电脑周围，喝着拿铁或吃着免费食物。

2013年August3日，“Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist，卷 408, 期 8847:


perseverating

more perseverating (comparative)
most perseverating (superlative)

/pəˈsɛvəɹeɪtɪŋ/

The uses in many Western languages of words meaning ‘word’ to refer to acts of speech are perseverating traces of primary orality.

在许多西方语言中，使用意思是“词”的词语来指代言语行为，这是原始口头语言持久留存的痕迹。

2011，David Bellos，Is That a Fish in Your Ear?，Penguin, 出版於 2012，頁 120:


foofoo

可能是 frou-frou 的簡化形式。

more foofoo (comparative)
most foofoo (superlative)

溫和的，不適合男人或成年人的

Here we are. A man's coffee for me, and a soy foofoo coffee for you.[…]I think the barista assumed I was buying the foofoo coffee for my girlfriend.


phytopathological

more phytopathological (comparative)
most phytopathological (superlative)


loyaler

loyal 的比較級形式。


adsorbable

more adsorbable (comparative)
most adsorbable (superlative)


rustique

more rustique (comparative)
most rustique (superlative)

rustic的古旧形式。

There is Bernard de Palissy, the maker of the king’s rustique pottery, and the predecessor of Cuvier, burning all his furniture for lack of wood for his furnace ; Correggio, selling his painting for sixty crowns and succumbing beneath the heavy sack in which he bore the copper coins received in payment.

1891，The Divine Enterprise of Missions，頁 281:


OTT

more OTT (comparative)
most OTT (superlative)


勞氏船級社（Lloyd's Register of Shipping）用於表示一級船舶。


LGBTQWERTY

源自 LGBT + QWERTY (“基於拉丁字母的標準打字機和電腦鍵盤布局”)。

LGBTQXYZ

LGBT+ 或 LGBTQ+之同義詞：嘲笑用不同的字母表示相關社群，以擴展首字母縮寫的做法。

and why do you hate the lgbtqwerty crowd? ur a h8r!11111!1!!!11 White cisgendered patriarchical oppressor!

你為什麼討厭 LGBTQWERTY 族群？你是一個 h8r!11111!1!!!11 白人順性別父權壓迫！

2015年April24日，The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior，“Re: I'll take two microaggression sandwiches, some fries and a coke”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

The parents and the judge should be locked up. The LGBTQWERTY agenda clearly isn't about the issue of rights. I wouldn't have any issue with that. It's about normalising mental illness, sexualising children, spreading perversion and sidelining normal people because they don't like feeling like misfits.

父母和法官都應該被關起來。LGBTQWERTY 議程顯然與權利議題無關。我對此沒有任何異議。它的目的是將精神疾病正常化，將兒童性化，傳播變態，並將正常人邊緣化，因為他們不喜歡感覺自己格格不入。

2019年May13日，Incubus，“Child abuse”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):

One of the most dynamic cultural events of past year was not any of the LGBTQWERTY ‘re-imaginings’ so beloved of Radio 4’s fawning arts coverage, but rather the speech made by the unlikely revolutionary, Roger Bolton[.]

去年最具活力的文化活動之一並不是第四廣播電台阿諛奉承的藝術報道所鍾愛的 LGBTQWERTY 的「重新想像」，而是不太可能是革命者的羅傑·博爾頓的演講。

2023年January6日，Julie Birchill，“Radio 4 is becoming a parody of itself”, in Spiked，存檔自the original on 2023-07-13:


infirmer

infirm 的比較級形式。


Avar

源自阿瓦爾語 аварал (awaral)


Crimean

He also thought nothing of laying down a railway in a war zone. For example, he was one of those behind the Grand Crimean Central Railway, built during the Crimean War [...].

2021年December29日，Stephen Roberts，“Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL，期 947，頁 57:


deltoid

源自拉丁語 deltoideus，源自古希臘語形容詞 δελτοειδής (deltoeidḗs)。參見δέλτα (délta)。

形似希臘字母Δ的；三角形的 呈三角形、且通過側面附著在莖上的


spiced

more spiced (comparative)
most spiced (superlative)

Fred preferred spiced rum to plain.

与原味朗姆酒相比，弗雷德更喜欢加香料的朗姆酒。


realisable

more realisable (comparative)
most realisable (superlative)


Tlingit

借自特林吉特語 Lingít。

與特林吉特人，以及他們的語言、文化和土地有關的。


smolt

繼承自中古英語 smolt、smylt，繼承自古英語 smolt、smeolt (“温和的、平和的、宁静的、静止的、温柔的、清晰的、明亮的”)，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *smultaz、*smeltaz (“安静的、温柔的”)，源自原始印歐語 *(s)meld- (“击打、研磨、压碎、削弱”)。同源詞包括低地蘇格蘭語 smolt (“平静的”)、古撒克遜語 smultro (“安静的”)、中古荷蘭語 smolt、smout (“弱的、温柔的、安静的”)、中古高地德語 smolz (“亲爱的、可爱的、美丽的、有光泽的”)。

more smolt (comparative)
most smolt (superlative)


modder

源自 mod + -er (構成形容詞比較級的後綴)。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-modder.wav


southwestern

同類詞：eastern、northeastern、northern、northwestern、southeastern、southern、western

Locals think southwestern sunsets are the most beautiful.

当地人认为西南的日落是最美的。


southeastern

同類詞：eastern、northern、northeastern、northwestern、southern、southwestern、western

The southeastern part of the country is the most affluent.

該國的東南部地區最為富裕。


south-eastern

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flattered

more flattered (comparative)
most flattered (superlative)

（被奉承得）高興的；感到榮幸的；受寵若驚的


busier

busy 的比較級形式。


busiest

With more than 47 million passenger entries and exits recorded in 2018-2019, New Street is the UK's busiest station outside London and the fifth busiest overall.

2018年至2019年，新街车站的出入境旅客量超过4700万人次，是伦敦范围以外英国最繁忙的车站，排名全国第五。

2020年July29日，Paul Stephen，“A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail，頁 57, photo caption:


Marseillais

more Marseillais (comparative)
most Marseillais (superlative)


sunbathed

起自1890年代或更早；將陽光想象成能浸潤某些東西的液體。

陽光明媚的；被陽光所照耀的

sunbathed landscape


contrariant

繼承自中古英語 contrariaunt，源自古法語 contrariant，源自晚期拉丁語 contrāriāns，contrāriō 的現在分詞。

more contrariant (comparative)
most contrariant (superlative)

the struggles of contrariant factions

1795，Samuel Taylor Coleridge，address delivered in Bristol:

The learned Chancellor concludes:—“We have long ago satisfied ourselves that natural science, as represented by Darwin, is not contrariant to revealed religon, and it is a wholesome thing to be remnided that every good and perfect gift cometh from the Father of Light.”

1903年January14日，“Current Notes”, in Bye-Gones: Relating to Wales and the Border Counties，卷 8，頁 8:


antagonised

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antagonized

more antagonized (comparative)
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被激怒（而表現出敵對）的；成為敵人的


motivating

more motivating (comparative)
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rested

more rested (comparative)
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evacuated

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The evacuated flask imploded with a pop when it could no longer stand the outside air pressure.

当抽空的烧瓶无法承受外界气压时，会发出“砰”的一声而内爆。


absenter

absent 的比較級形式。


shortwave

短波的（波長介乎10-100米的）


mediumwave

中波的（波長介乎100-1000米的）


starred

a Michelin-starred restaurant

She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery.

她悲伤起来，抬头望着繁星满天的天空；她的灵魂默默地诉说着自己的苦难。


adapted

more adapted (comparative)
most adapted (superlative)

為適應不同環境或媒介而進行了修改的

That movie was an adapted novel.

那部电影是根据小说改编的。


underwhelming

more underwhelming (comparative)
most underwhelming (superlative)

未給人留下深刻印象的，不像預期的那樣令人興奮的

If I grant you that the German language is spoken by the overwhelming majority of the German people you will agree with me that the best music of Germany has been composed by the underwhelming minority. Now, if the overwhelming majority of Germans are enemies, it follows that the underwhelming minority of Germans must be friendly.

Davis, plush as ever, is a little whiny and underwhelming as Murray's girlfriend, who spends much of her time nurturing Quaid, doing his familiar sweet-natured lummox.

1990年July13日，Rita Kempley，“‘Quick Change’ (R)”, in The Washington Post:

But in Washington and just about everywhere else, sales of "The Secret Man," Bob Woodward's story of the source known as Deep Throat, have been underwhelming.

2005年August17日，Edward Wyatt，“Sales Lag for Book on Deep Throat”, in New York Times:

When compared with the superb ÖBB Railjet or Italy's Frecciarossa (Red Arrow), to cite just two examples, the Government-procured Intercity Express Trains (IETs) are somewhat underwhelming.

僅舉兩個例子：與一流的ÖBB Railjet或義大利的Frecciarossa（紅箭）相比，政府採購的城際特快列車（IET）就顯得有些令人失望了。

2022年March9日，Ben Jones，“RAIL Supplement: Return Ticket”, in RAIL，期 952，頁 28 (supplement):


arguable

more arguable (comparative)
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faxed

繼承自中古英語 *faxed，繼承自古英語 feaxed、ġefeaxed (“有頭髮的”)，源自古英語 feax (“頭髮”)。參見 fax。

more faxed (comparative)
most faxed (superlative)

A comet is a ‘faxed’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star. But ‘faxed’ got corrupted into ‘fixed’ star during the seventeenth century.


sized

有著……尺寸/大小/規模的（一般與副詞結合使用）

A badly-sized pair of shoes.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

如今，人工肾仍然意味着冰箱大小的透析机。这些设备模仿真正的肾脏，净化血液并将杂质和多余的水作为尿液排出。

2013年June1日，“A better waterworks”, in The Economist，卷 407, 期 8838，頁 5 (Technology Quarterly):


prototonic

同類詞：deuterotonic


deuterotonic

同類詞：prototonic


anticonfessional

more anticonfessional (comparative)
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pacate

源自拉丁語 pācātus，pācō (“使平靜，使和平”) 的完成被動分詞，源自 pāx (“和平”)。

more pacate (comparative)
most pacate (superlative)

Mr. Smith, in his Discourse before quoted, though he supposes this kind of divine inspiration to be more "pacate and serene than that which was strictly called prophecy […] "

1710, Matthew Henry, quoting a "learned Mr. Smith", "Preface" to Commentary on the Whole Bible


tanned

more tanned (comparative)
most tanned (superlative)

You're looking very tanned.

tanned bodies lying on the beach

Dressed always in jeans, a loose long sleeved top and large brimmed straw beach hat [...] she stood out from the tanned seasoned locals.

1994，Jim Ranie，Jargodin: The Moonlighter，Brisbane: Jim Ranie，頁 120:


attempted

嘗試過的（一般暗示已失敗，即未遂）

She is facing jail time for attempted robbery.

她因抢劫未遂而面临牢狱之灾。

An attempted coup.


beautified

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Bajan

more Bajan (comparative)
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A faction recalled Duke mentioning Bajan ancestry at some point, which lent credence to the tale.

2021，Colson Whitehead，Harlem Shuffle，Fleet，頁s 241–242:


Banach

To show that Y is Banach, let {yₙ} be a Cauchy sequence in Y.

2001，V. K. Krishnan，Textbook of Functional Analysis: A Problem-oriented Approach，PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., →ISBN，頁 73:

... but if E is Banach, then ...

2012，A.Y. Helemskii，The Homology of Banach and Topological Algebras，Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN，頁 23:

... Try to prove that if L(E, F) is Banach, then F is Banach, ...

2012，Michael J. Field，Differential Calculus and Its Applications，Courier Corporation, →ISBN，頁 51:


decimosexto

/ˌdɛsɪməʊˈsɛkstəʊ/

a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size


Ramian

more Ramian (comparative)
most Ramian (superlative)

Sixth, in the intellectual life of our culture, paradigms and categories of analysis adapted long ago from Ramian dialectica, classical and Newtonian physics, and Hegelian Marxian dialectics are being superseded by paradigms more appropriate to a vastly expanded store of knowledge and the consequent reorganization of contemporary experience.

2000，Bruce Michelson，Literary Wit，University of Massachusetts Press，頁 5:


challenged

more challenged (comparative)
most challenged (superlative)

在心理或身體上缺乏某些屬性或技能的；用在副詞後，構成帶政治正確意味的形容詞。

mentally challenged

用於副詞後，組成形容詞，模仿或嘲諷義項1的這類形容詞。

vertically challenged


acclimated

more acclimated (comparative)
most acclimated (superlative)

Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans

“离开熟悉环境”式喜剧的续集随着剧集持续时间的延长而变得越来越没有意义。当《鳄鱼邓迪勇闯洛杉矶》于2001年上映时，也就是第一部《鳄鱼邓迪》成为惊人大片15年后，主角已经花了很长的时间来适应那些古怪的美国人。

2012年May24日，Nathan Rabin，“Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 [影评：《黑衣人3》]”, in The Onion AV Club:


alienated

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sullied

more sullied (comparative)
most sullied (superlative)


soiled

more soiled (comparative)
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stained

more stained (comparative)
most stained (superlative)

塗上顏料的；被顏料著色的


defiled

more defiled (comparative)
most defiled (superlative)


tainted

more tainted (comparative)
most tainted (superlative)

Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.

嘿，把這玩意兒從我身邊拿走！這是用黑錢買的。

Do not use tainted values in SQL queries.

在SQL查詢中，不要使用來源不受信任的值。


scopate

源自拉丁語 scopa (“掃帚”)。

more scopate (comparative)
most scopate (superlative)


heaped

heaping

一大……（表示所能容納之量）的

the heaped dishes waiting to be washed up

一大……（表示所能容納之量）的

(尤其用於美國、加拿大)

a heaped teaspoon of sugar


heaping

一大……（表示所能容納之量）的 (對照 heaped)

a heaping teaspoon of sugar

a heaping big bowl of ice cream; a heaping bowl of rice

一大碗冰淇淋；一大碗米飯


disturbant

more disturbant (comparative)
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humiliant

more humiliant (comparative)
most humiliant (superlative)

But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed
By my percipiency of sin and fall
In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.

1844，Elizabeth Barrett Browning，A Drama of Exile:


insinuant

more insinuant (comparative)
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suffocated

more suffocated (comparative)
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choked

more choked (comparative)
most choked (superlative)

被厚重材料阻礙的（一般指植物生長）

It gave the green light to pedestrianisation of the station's porte cochère (which had been traffic-choked when used as a drop-off point by motorists), [...].

2022年November16日，Paul Stephen，“Stations earn a deserved NRA ovation: Large: Nottingham”, in RAIL，期 970，頁 46:


Czechian

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starved

more starved (comparative)
most starved (superlative)

I'm starved! I haven't eaten since breakfast.

我要餓死了！從早餐到現在我什麼都沒吃。

She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

她说：“我饿得不行了。我可以吃掉一匹马。” 我告诉她她在撒谎，因为我真的曾经吃过马。

1946，George Johnston，Skyscrapers in the Mist，頁 46:


deprived

more deprived (comparative)
most deprived (superlative)

London attracts some of the richest people in the world, but it is home also to some of the poorest people in the land. The three most deprived areas in Britain are all in London — Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney.

伦敦吸引了世界上一些最富有的人，但它也是该国一些最贫穷的人的家园。英国最贫困的三个地区都在伦敦——陶尔哈姆莱茨、纽汉和哈克尼。

2013年September28日，Kenan Malik，“London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-28:


thenar

源自古希臘語 θέναρ (thénar)。


exceptant

more exceptant (comparative)
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transmitted

a telegraphically transmitted message


saponified

more saponified (comparative)
most saponified (superlative)


self-confident

more self-confident (comparative)
most self-confident (superlative)

This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.

1910，Emerson Hough，章號 I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise，Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:


submaxillary

submaxillary saliva

submaxillary mucin


salivant

源自拉丁語 salivant-、salivans，salivare (“吐出”) 的現在分詞，源自 saliva，等同於 saliva + -ant。


environment-friendly

more environment-friendly (comparative)
most environment-friendly (superlative)


eco-friendly

more eco-friendly (comparative)
eco-friendlier (comparative)
most eco-friendly (superlative)
eco-friendliest (superlative)

環保的，生態友善的；不破壞自然環境的

To cut carbon, a steel industry by-product (known as ground granulated blast-furnace slag) has been incorporated into the pier, as an eco-friendlier alternative, to traditional concrete.

為了減少碳排放，碼頭中採用了鋼鐵工業副產品（稱為磨碎的粒狀高爐礦渣），作為比傳統混凝土的更環保的替代品。

2023年February8日，“Network News”, in RAIL，期 976，頁 25, photo caption:


ecofriendly

more ecofriendly (comparative)
most ecofriendly (superlative)


ecologically friendly

more ecologically friendly (comparative)
most ecologically friendly (superlative)

對一個地區的生態有益（或至少無害）的


deplorate

源自拉丁語 deploratus，deplorare 的過去分詞。參見 deplore。

more deplorate (comparative)
most deplorate (superlative)

[…] but seeing 'tis now evident and certain that my safety without her destruction, is in a more deplorate estate, I am most grievously affected […]

1670，Richard Baker，Chronicle of the Kings of England: With Additions，頁 392:


underrated

more underrated (comparative)
most underrated (superlative)

被低估的，被評價過低的，未得到足夠認可的

Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.

科曼認為南安普敦的第三個進球是全場最精彩的進球。傑克·科克是這家備受讚譽的俱樂部中最被低估的球員，他將球傳給塔迪奇，塔迪奇等待科克跑到後門柱，然後將球傳給他，儘管維托·曼諾內試圖阻擋，塔迪奇還是近距離將球打進，這粒進球實至名歸。

2014年October18日，Paul Doyle，“Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:


soigné

借自法語 soigné，soigner 的過去分詞。soigneur 的同源對似詞。

法語陰性形式 soignée 常用於形容女性。

時尚而優雅的；精心打扮的

Custom Java apps and CU-SeeMe feeds will provide interaction with the battery of soigné psychics.

1997年February20日，Steve Silberman，“Burroughs Pops Online Cherry with Drag Queens”, in Wired:

Inspired surely by the old socialist slogan "from cradle to grave," the soigné French health ministry will now also take care of the French in bed.

1998年March20日，“The Tickled French”, in Wall Street Journal Online，Dow Jones & Company:

He's in line behind a gaggle of young-looking women, skinny and soigné in cocktail gowns and tiaras lifted from 1920s silent movies.

2005年July5日，Charles Stross，Accelerando, →ISBN，存檔自the original on 2012-01-27, chapter 8, paragraph 2365:

But a graceful scoop here, a soigné knot there, and voilà: Aphrodite meets the Eiffel Tower.

2009年March14日，Vanessa Friedman，“Trends at Paris fashion week”, in Financial Times，London:

The gleaming black stone floors of the lobby, the soigné pink-and-white awnings that shaded the beachfront Mai Tai Bar and Surf Room, the spacious lawns and gardens with the oldest and tallest coconut trees anywhere…all were touchstones for everything good about Hawaiian hospitality, for everything that was ever truly well done in Waikīkī.

2009年March18日，Curt Sanburn，“Where’s the Pink?”, in Honolulu Weekly，存檔自the original on 2010-01-05:


soignée

借自法語 soignée，soigné 的陰性形式。

more soignée (comparative)
most soignée (superlative)

soigné的另一種寫法

Proof of Life was not much of a film; and Ryan, implausibly soignée despite the fact that her character's husband has been kidnapped by South American drug fiends, is one of the worst things about it.

2007，Bee Wilson，“Pink and Bare”, in London Review of Books 29:3，頁 24:


uncopyrightable

[…] The four criteria that Congress, courts, and theorists have traditionally employed to distinguish the copyrightable from the uncopyrightable are: […]

1984，MJ Touponse，“Application of Copyright Law to Computer Operating System Programs: Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin”, in Connecticut Law Review，頁 665:

[…] Keeton, however, resolved that it was the idea/expression dichotomy that forms the boundary line between the copyrightable and the uncopyrightable, […]

1994，R VerSteeg，“Jurimetric Copyright: Future Shock for the Visual Arts”, in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal，頁 125:

[…] to examine those director contributions that help create that overall feel and apply Judge Hand's abstractions test to filter out the uncopyrightable from the copyrightable […]

2001，R Amanda，“Elvis Karaoke Shakespeare and the Search for a Copyrightable Stage Directions”, in Arizona Law Review，頁 677:


secund

拉丁語 secundus (“遵循風或水的路線或流動方向”)。參見 second (adj)。

偏向一側的，只生在一邊的


perfumy

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transigent

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But in the second half scientists will undoubtedly make progress in synthesizing the hormones, the mysterious secretions of the ductless glands which regulate the make-up of our personalities, determining whether we are to be big or little, energetic or lazy, virile or effeminate, aggressive or transigent, high-strung or lethargic.

1941，Arthur Kissam Train，The Story of Everyday Things，Harper & Brothers，頁 390:

Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Prez y Prez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will."

1966年April22日，“Unaccustomed Calm”, in Time，存檔自the original on 2013-08-27:

As the editors of the Gazeta da Tarde explained their position, “Intransigent in principles, we are, however, transigent in facts.”

正如《Gazeta da Tarde》的编辑解释他们的立场一样，“我们在原则上不妥协，但在事实上却很妥协。”

1972，Robert Brent Toplin，The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil，Atheneum, →ISBN，頁 85:

The internal contradictions resulting from the lack of distinction between the religious and the socio-political spheres of action had been perceived by the more intelligent and best intentioned, and this accounted for the perplexities of Toniolo and many others, both intransigent and transigent.

1977，Marco Caliaro, Mario Francesconi，John Baptist Scalabrini: Apostle to Emigrants, →ISBN，頁 11:

He is Everyman in exile, the exile in every man. A transigent man, easy, warm, thinking, he makes up in little acts of imagination for frustrations not of his making.

1985，R. P. Blackmur，“The Jew in Search of a Son”, in The Art of the Critic，New York: Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN，頁 334:

“I think Bruno mainly appeals to a small minority, Italians who are at the margins of society,” said Paolo Fabbri, a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. “Ours is such a transigent culture, we are known for ‘transformismo,’ going along to get along.”

2000年February18日，Alessandra Stanley，“Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican ‘Regrets’ Burning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

By year's end, he was to admit that Chicago had proved to be more difficult than any place he had been; more transigent, less amenable to reason, more violent.

2007 [1989]，“Is Dr King on board?”, in Proclaiming Christ in Christ's Way，頁 201:

Here is Ezra Klein, explaining why Republican are suddenly looking more, shall we say, transigent on immigration than they’ve been on taxes: […]

埃兹拉·克莱因解释了为什么共和党人突然在移民问题上变得比在税收问题上更加妥协： […]

2013年January28日，Ross Douthat，“Immigration and Republican Self-Interest”, in The New York Times:


intransigeant

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‘That's not good enough!’ Her voice rang out like a challenge. I would talk to her sometime in the nearish future. ‘No.’ Her reply was intransigeant.


étincelé

大塊底色上鋪滿火花狀圖案的


ordained

There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister.

仪式非常隆重，他被授予牧师之位。


moisturizing

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invalidated

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abrase

源自拉丁語 abrāsus，abrādō (“磨損；擦傷”) 的完成被動分詞，源自 ab (“從，離”) + rādō (“刮，擦”)。

被磨得光滑或空白的 （只見於17世紀）


adjurant

From time to time a waiter entered with ice and fruit and dumped them in a bowl; from a suit case under the table Gene drew fresh bottles and decanted them into the bowl; then, proprietorial, adjurant, sweating, he resumed his harsh monologue, mopping his face on his sleeve.

1931，William Faulkner，Sanctuary，Library of America, 出版於 1985，頁 168:


Couperinesque

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令人想起法國巴洛克作曲家弗朗索瓦·庫普蘭（François Couperin，1668-1733）的作品或風格的


excitant

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fermière

借自法語 (à la) fermière，字面意思是「以農夫妻子的方式」。


earthquakeproof

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earthquake-proof

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earthquakelike

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類似地震或具有地震特徵的

Mr. Biden’s decision had earthquakelike magnitude in Hillaryland, as Mrs. Clinton’s closest supporters are collectively known.

拜登的決定在 Hillaryland 產生了類似地震的影響，而 Hillaryland 是希拉蕊最親密的支持者的統稱。

2015年October22日，Patrick Healy，“Hillary Clinton Advisers Woo Biden Backers, but Resistance Lingers”, in New York Times:


cushioned

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unstrung

衰弱的，情緒低落的，無法保持冷靜的

Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...

1848，Orson Squire Fowler，A Home for All:


adoptable

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Only after reaching three weeks of age are the infants considered adoptable.

出生三個星期以後的嬰兒才可以被收養。

Personability and youthful vigor make this puppy highly adoptable.

獨特個性和青春活力使得這隻狗狗很適合領養。


adorn

繼承自中古英語 adornen、adournen，源自拉丁語 adōrnāre，adōrnō 的現在主動不定式；源自 ad + ōrnō (“裝飾，修飾”)。參見 adore、ornate。代替了借自古法語 aorner 的中古英語 aournen (“裝飾”)，其亦來自同一拉丁語詞彙。

And to realities yield all her shows:
Made so adorn for thy delight the more

1667，John Milton，“(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books，London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]，London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:


adorned

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adulterine

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a knave apothecary, that administers the physick, and makes the medicine, may do infinite harm, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, &c.

1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，第2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection i:

when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter , such adulterine guilds , as they were called , were not always disfranchised[…]

1776，Adam Smith，An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:


alphabetical

源自 拉丁語 alphabēticus + -al。 By surface analysis, alphabet + -ical。

alphabetic

和字母表相關的；用字母表表示的

和字母表相關的；用字母表表示的

Paul, who talks about what the magical papyri do, has in his first letter to the Corinthians described basic aspects of alphabetical language.

1986，Arthur Hilary Armstrong, A. A. Armstrong，Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman，頁 486:

根據字母表中字母的順序的

All names were placed into an alphabetical list.

所有名字都按字母順序排列在列表中。

But if an alphabeticall servility must be still urged, it may so fall out,

1644，John Milton，The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce，頁 31:


not bad

同類詞：good

What did you think of the guitarist?
Not bad, but that solo could have been better.

你覺得那個人吉他彈得怎麼樣？
還行吧，不過獨奏段本可以更好些的。


erinaceous

源自拉丁語 ērināceus (“刺蝟”)。

more erinaceous (comparative)
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/ˌɛ.ɹɪˈneɪ.ʃəs/

/ˌɛ.ɹəˈneɪ.ʃəs/


unleashed

Some trails are extremely narrow, and people might become easily intimidated by passing an unleashed dog in a confined space, especially a large, nosy dog.

有的步道窄得不行，萬一在經過狹窄空間時恰好旁邊有一條沒拴狗繩的狗，尤其是愛管閒事的大狗，人就很容易被嚇到。

2007，Karen Chavez，Best Hikes With Dogs: North Carolina，頁 31:

unleashed potential


American Indian

American + Indian。名詞義項最早見於1702年，形容詞的用法則稍晚出現。

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Euro-American

Euroamerican trade with China

（美洲人）歐洲裔的（與 Native American/Amerindian 相對）


magnetized

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hindering

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impedite

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colorate

拉丁語 colōrātus，colōrō (“上色，塗色”) 的過去分詞。

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magnetizable

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malverse

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[B]e what set of men they will, who would adventure to befriend and patronize such a malverse course […]。

1776，Josiah Hunter，An Inquiry Concerning the Scriptural Order，頁 199:

Never was fellow so pestered with malverse accidents as I am; and all of my own contriving!

1792，Thomas Holcroft，Anne St. Ives, vol. II, letter 36:

It has been well remarked, that a little learning, and a little power, are apt to be more productive of mischief than of advantage to their possessors, and that this malverse propensity has been most particulary^([sic]) efficient , when such attainments and possessions have been rare and splendid.

1815，David Laurie，A Treatise on Finance，頁 933:


puttable

同類詞：callable

Syl's description of the various sensations of the first few days of matrimony are very instructive also amusing but scarcely puttable on paper […]

quoted in 2024, Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill


untreated

The volume of the flame given out by the untreated wood was estimated at three times that given out by the best treated wood.

1905，Environmental Control & Safety Management，頁 365:

This short list represents but a few items of an extensive and open-ended list of untreated Indian English lexis.

2012，James Lambert，“Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes，頁 302:

The thrill of eventually finding a job is quickly offset by her untreated depression.

2019年August16日，Monalesia Earle，Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives，McFarland, →ISBN，頁 32:


treated

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disert

源自拉丁語 disertus，源自 dissertus。對照法語 disert。參見 dissert。

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fraid

afraid的發音拼寫。

Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." "

1912，Edith Van Dyne，Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation:

When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him."

1873，Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner，The Gilded Age, Complete:

"Yis," he continued, "there was a time when folks said I could a hed Miry ef I'd asked her; and I putty much think so myself, but I didn't say nothin': marriage is allers kind o'ventursome; an' Miry had such up-and-down kind o' ways, I was sort o' fraid on't.

1872，Harriet Beecher Stowe，Oldtown Fireside Stories:


Mohammedan

At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors.

在主要车站，还设有独立的印度教和伊斯兰茶点室，一些邮政列车还为印度茶和甜食摊贩保留了隔间。

1950 February，W. Dendy，“Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine，頁 119:


classifying

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distillable

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murdered

They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.

1936，Rollo Ahmed，The Black Art，London: Long，頁 178:


gridlocked

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distensive

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distensive paralysis

distensive opposition

distensive headache


contorniate

借自意大利語 contorniato，contorniare (“畫出線路或輪廓”) 的現在分詞。

[…] by its close analogy with a more elaborate composition on a contorniate medal of the same Emperor, which was certainly commemorative of that event.


numerose

借自拉丁語 numerōsus (“眾多的，大量的；和諧的”)，源自 numerus (“數字”)。numerous 的同源對似詞。

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[…] For, Mechanic Examples of this kind are every where so obvious to sense, and so numerose, that only to enumerate them would be a task hard and tediose.

1683，Walter Charleton，Three Anatomic Lectures，頁 92:


confutative

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uninterruptible

uninterruptible power supply


marginalized

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The current Israeli government has been working to curtail and eliminate critical voices within Israeli society in recent years, particularly those fighting to end the occupation and expose human rights violations against Palestinians and marginalized communities.

近年来，以色列现政府一直致力于压制和消除以色列社会内部的批评声音，特别是那些争取结束占领和揭露巴勒斯坦人和受边缘化社区人权被侵犯行为的声音。

2018，“Israeli gov't is trying to defund +972 Magazine, report says”, in +972 Magazine:


sulphurous

more sulphurous (comparative)
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"The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.

1951 October，R. S. McNaught，“Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine，頁 704:


sworn

繼承自中古英語 sworen、isworen，繼承自古英語 sworen、ġesworen，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *swaran、*giswaran，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *swaranaz，原始日耳曼語 *swarjaną (“發誓”) 的過去分詞，等價於 swear + -en。

His sworn statement convinced the judge.

他的宣誓声明使法官信服。

a sworn foe

a sworn socialist


perturbated

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Interslavic

在斯拉夫人或斯拉夫國家之間的


conformant

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I would like to say that I think the reference to the National Labor Relations Act and the other so-called conformant statutes in both 9017 and the War Labor Disputes Act, might very well be decided by the courts, when they do decide them, refer entirely to procedural interpretations rather than to matters of substantive law.

1944，Morse，Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate Executive Agencies，U.S. Government Printing Office，頁 1523:

Microsoft LDAP is conformant to LDAP set of standards; however, it is non-conformant to many standards.

2000，“Threat Analysis for Directory Services”, in Vulnerability Analysis and Defense for the Internet，Springer, →ISBN，頁 129:

“[…] Presumably, these families are not in marriages that are conformant to the teachings of the Church.”

2019年March8日，Christine Hauser，引 a letter to Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, “Catholic School in Kansas Faces a Revolt for Rejecting a Same-Sex Couple’s Child”, in The New York Times:


Central Asian

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perite

源自拉丁語 perītus。

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[…] some of our friends who are in the habit of exercising a profuse rather than a perite hospitality […]


parked

a row of parked cars


suspected

Bring in the suspected vandal.

把涉嫌破坏行为的人带进来。


spenno

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All the restaurants here are pretty spenno.


translinear

具有指數（而不是線性）電流、電壓關係的電路的


social democratic

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begrudged

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No service is so unsatisfactory as blind service—no sacrifices are more begrudged than those which are made to objects we are unable to comprehend.

1845，Edward Miall，Views of the Voluntary Principle，頁 98:

It would seem that just at the time when the year's work of the orange tree was completed and the grower was exchanging its fruits for money he would feel like doing something nice by such a faithful servant, but cold facts reveala that of the three needed applications of fertilizer during each year it is the fall application that is the most begrudged and the most often neglected.

1911，Nettie May Gifford Prange，Citrus Culture for Profit，頁 44:

Grabbing a begrudged compromise here; clutching an opt-out clause there.

2008，Stephen Wall，A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair，頁 130:

He used to give him and his brother a begrudged 10p each at the end of his annual stay with them. Just how begrudged this munificent sum was became clear the year Roger's visit coincided with Sam's birthday. When Roger discovered this, just after giving his nephews their coins, he leaned forward and took 5p back from Ian and left.


hydrolytic

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awol

AWOL的大小寫替代形式

Back in the city's littered bivouac he walked among the tenements of home like an awol private returning to barracks from which his old outfit had long ago convoyed and scattered for keeps.

1949，Nelson Algren，The Man with the Golden Arm:


niggerfied

源自 nigger (“黑鬼，黑人”，種族歧視語) + -fy (“……化”) + -ed (“過去分詞詞尾”)。

more niggerfied (comparative)
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被引入黑鬼領域的；被轉變為黑人的方式或規範的

But now she was addressing Mrs. Trenholme in a drawling, niggerfied English […]

但現在她用拖長的、帶有黑鬼特徵的英語對 Trenholme 夫人說話 […]

They knowed the Melungeons, like the Cherokees had let runaway slaves hide out amongst them. This with their dark skin was enough to make our grandpappies see pretty plain that the Melungeons was a niggerfied people.

他們知道 Melungeons 像切羅基人一樣，讓逃亡的奴隸藏匿在他們中間。再加上他們的黑皮膚，讓我們的祖父輩們很清楚地認為 Melungeons 是一個黑人化的民族。

1999，Barbara E. Smith，Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South，頁 48:

I finally called the Lionel Show, and was fortunate that this intelligent, not loud or niggerfied, college educated black woman answered.

我終於給 Lionel Show 打了電話，幸運的是接電話的是一位聰明、不吵鬧、也不帶有黑人特徵的受過大學教育的黑人女性。


bourdonnée

末端有像朝圣者手杖上的圆形凸起的

A shield of arms : bendy of six, over all a cross bourdonnée fitchée.

1898，British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch，Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum，頁 185:

Crest - Upon a crest coronet or, charged with a cross bourdonnée azure, a pelican argent, holding in the bill a nail or. Motto - "Sine labe nota." Residence - Henley House, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, N.W. PILKINGTON[…]

1910，Arthur Charles Fox-Davies，Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour，頁 1282:


Viet

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comforting

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Your comforting words help ease my mind.

您安慰的话语让我心情轻松了一些。

It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

当我遇到麻烦时，知道妈妈总是在身边，这让我感到很安慰。


pignorate

借自中世紀拉丁語 pignoratus，拉丁語 pignerātus (“被抵押；被保證”) 的異體。


hiam

借自泉漳話 薟／莶 (hiam, “辣”)。

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At best, it was just so-so – nothing like what we would cook for ourselves at home. It was not “hiam” enough probably from the lack of ginger or ginger juice and there was insufficient wine.

頂多只能算是一般般——根本不像我們自己在家做的。味道不夠辣，可能因為沒有放薑或薑汁，而且酒也不夠。

2011 Aug，“STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!”, in suituapui.wordpress.com, retrieved 2016-08-12:


domain-specific

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centered

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情緒穩定的、冷靜的 （自1970年代）


pronged

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a three-pronged fork


pragmatique

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libant

借自拉丁語 lībāns，lībō (“品嘗；觸摸”) 的現在分詞。

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What delicate odours are blown abroad, caught by the libant wind / From the springing wheat on yonder slope, from the alden grove behind!

1901 May，Eleanor Booth Simmons，“In May”, in The Bookman，卷 13, 期 3, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company，頁 252:

The libant libellula darts to the bush / Where safe it sippeth from the laurel’s chaste

1901，[Louis Eilshemius]，“Love: Sweet Recollections”, in Poetical Works of Louis M. Elshemus，First series, New York: The Abbey Press Publishers，頁 264:


agast

(古舊) aghast的另一種拼寫法


hated

繼承自中古英語 hated，繼承自古英語 hatod、ġehatod (“被討厭的”，過去分詞)，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *hatadaz (“被討厭的”)，等價於 hate + -ed。同源詞包括薩特弗里斯蘭語 haated、hoated (“被討厭的”)、荷蘭語 gehaat (“被討厭的”)、德國低地德語 haat (“被討厭的”)、德語 gehasst (“被討厭的”)、瑞典語 hatad (“被討厭的”)、冰島語 hataður (“被討厭的”)。

more hated (comparative)
most hated (superlative)

可憎的，被討厭的，遭唾棄的


Judeo-Satanic

more Judeo-Satanic (comparative)
most Judeo-Satanic (superlative)

Changes abound, Judeo-Satanic plot or not.


Satanic

more Satanic (comparative)
most Satanic (superlative)


satanic

more satanic (comparative)
most satanic (superlative)

Satanic (“撒但的”)的另一種寫法

Can Abrahamic religious leaders call other religions "satanic" without being in jail?

亚伯拉罕宗教的领袖们能够称其他宗教“邪恶如撒旦”而不入狱吗？


accompanable

more accompanable (comparative)
most accompanable (superlative)

As for the houses of the country (for many other houses came vnder their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th’ other, & yet not so far off as that it barred mutuall succor: a shew, as it were, of an accompanable solitarines, & of a ciuil wildnes.

c. 1580，Philip Sidney，“The First Booke”, in The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia]，第3rd版, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, 出版於 1598, →OCLC，頁 6:


abiuret

a- (“不”) + biuret，後者源自 bi- (“二”) + uret (“尿素”)。


abradant

more abradant (comparative)
most abradant (superlative)


effrenate

源自拉丁語 effrēnātus，effrēnō (“解開，鬆開；不再束縛”) 的過去分詞。

more effrenate (comparative)
most effrenate (superlative)


six feet under

六英尺是傳統上開挖墳墓的深度。

My grandparents are six feet under.

我的祖父母都已與世長辭。


fulgurant

more fulgurant (comparative)
most fulgurant (superlative)


galeate

源自拉丁語 galeatus, galeare (“以頭盔覆蓋”) 的過去分詞。

[…]it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.

1992年，魯道夫馬蒂亞斯舒斯特，The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian，卷 V, 伊州芝加哥: 菲爾德自然史博物館, →ISBN，頁 4:


geminal

源自拉丁語 geminālis，源自 geminī (“雙胞胎，雙生子”)。

/ˈd͡ʒɛmɪnəl/

兩個官能團均連於同一原子上的；偕的


geminous

geminous teeth

And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.

1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 15)

The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.

1861 March，“Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, in Calcutta Review，卷 36，頁 v:


dark-eyed

more dark-eyed (comparative)
most dark-eyed (superlative)


blackeyed

blackeyed pea

blackeyed Susan


suffuse

源自拉丁語 suffundō。

more suffuse (comparative)
most suffuse (superlative)

This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.

1912，New York State Museum，Annual Report，頁 243:

Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.

2014，Rita Petrini，Through the Curtain of Time and Space, →ISBN:


hoarier

hoary 的比較級形式。


hoariest

hoary的最高級形式。


grassier

grassy 的比較級形式。


scelerate

more scelerate (comparative)
most scelerate (superlative)


songier

songy 的比較級形式。


salaried

領工資的（與小時工和志願者相對）

領月薪的，按月付錢的（與按星期的相對）


hebetant

源自拉丁語 hebetāns，hebetō (“使迟钝，使麻木”) 的現在分詞。

more hebetant (comparative)
most hebetant (superlative)

This morning, May 2, 1662, having first broken my fast upon eggs and cooling salades, mellows, watercresses, those herbes, according to Villanovus his prescription, who disallows the use of meat in a morning as gross, fat, hebetant, feral, altogether fitter for wild beasts than man […]

a. 1834，Charles Lamb，Curious Fragments extracted from a common-place book, which belonged to Robert Burton […] :


Languedoc

借自法語 Languedoc，源自 langue d'oc (“說“oc”的語言”)，出自但丁的《論俗語》，他在書中用拉丁語寫道：“nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil”（“有的人會說‘òc’，還有的人會說‘sì’，另外的人則說‘oïl’”）。基於奧克語詞語 òc (“是”)，與古法語 oïl（現代法語 oui）相對。

奧克語的；普羅旺斯語的；加泰羅尼亞語的


sectorized

被劃分為數個部分、部門的


seditious

more seditious (comparative)
most seditious (superlative)

There may not be anything seditious about his music, but plundering and ravaging the tracks needed to create it requires a spirit of rebellion at odds with corporate organization. Enterprise mashup may be an oxymoron.

2010，Jonathon Keats，Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology，Oxford University Press, →ISBN，頁 112:


abductive

展肌的 （19世紀中葉）

溯因的；誘導的 （20世紀早期）

The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]

2010，Steve Hendricks，A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial, →ISBN，頁 169:


faster-than-light

這是名詞前使用的形式。名詞後面使用的形式是 faster than light，例如：The laws of physics forbid faster-than-light travel.
物理定律禁止超光速傳播。 Tachyons travel at speeds faster than light.
快子以比光速還快的速度傳播。

Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a ship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. This effectively raises the speed of light within the mass effect field, allowing high speed travel with negligible relativistic time dilation effects.

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


byzantine

more byzantine (comparative)
most byzantine (superlative)

Byzantine的大小寫替代形式 (只用於比喻義項)

The result is a byzantine system of government directed by 160 ministers, a structure that absorbs 50 percent of Bosnia’s gross domestic product of $15 billion, according to the World Bank.

结果是，波斯尼亚政府体制如拜占庭般复杂，由160名部长领导，根据世界银行的数据，这一体制占用了波斯尼亚150亿美元国内生产总值的50%。

2008，Dan Bilefsky，“Fears of New Ethnic Conflict in Bosnia”, in New York Times:


amendable

more amendable (comparative)
most amendable (superlative)


amphidromous

在淡水與鹹水之間洄游（但並非為了繁殖）的


containerised

At the time, international deep-sea shipping remained a loose cargo operation, although BR did seek to influence conversion to unit loads by providing a containerised short sea shipping service between Harwich and Rotterdam in 1968.

2020年May20日，Industry Insider，“An online boost for freight”, in Rail，頁 68:


acescent

借自拉丁語 acēscēns, acēscentis，acēscēre (“變酸”) 的現在分詞，acēre (“是酸的，發酸”) 的起始動詞；對比法語 acescent。

more acescent (comparative)
most acescent (superlative)

The fluid was a pale yellow , thick , creamy - looking substance , of uniform consistency . It had a disagreeable acescent odour, something resembling that of putrecsent milk.

这种液体呈淡黄色，粘稠，呈奶油状，稠度均匀。它有令人不快的发酸气味，有点像腐烂的牛奶。

1826，Michael Faraday，“On Pure Caoutchouc, and the Substance by which it is accompanied in the State of Sap or Juice”, in Quarterly Journal of Science:

All kinds of malt liquor contain […] alcohol or spirit. They are of course weaker than wines, and in general more liable to become flat and acescent from this circumstance […]

1821，Friedrich Accum，A Treatise on the Art of Brewing，London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown，頁 10:


coarctate

借自拉丁語 coarctātus，coarctō (“壓到一起，壓縮，使收縮”) 的完成分詞，源自 co- (“存在或聚集在一起”) + arctō (“拉近或压在一起”)。

more coarctate (comparative)
most coarctate (superlative)

擠在一起的，收縮的，變窄的

(指某些蠅的蛹) 被幼虫角质层或蛹壳所形成的坚硬壳包裹的


waterproofed

more waterproofed (comparative)
most waterproofed (superlative)


alimental

alimental sap

alimental produce


bermed

more bermed (comparative)
most bermed (superlative)


liever

liefer的另一種拼寫法；lief 的比較級形式。


all-night

同類詞：all-day

an all-night party

The former G.E.R. all-night service between Liverpool Street and Chingford, at hourly intervals, is revived.

1961 January，“The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 20:


taxed

more taxed (comparative)
most taxed (superlative)


derogant

源自拉丁語 derogans (現在分詞)。

more derogant (comparative)
most derogant (superlative)

arrogant in man and derogant to God


swanky

swankier (comparative)
swankiest (superlative)

His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders.

1930，Frank Richards，The Magnet: Tale-Bearer in Chief:


besuited

Here, besuited men with earpieces ushered us into a black Mercedes with tinted windows. On arrival at our destination, more besuited men with earpieces searched our bags, and made photocopies of my press card.

2010，Andrew Mueller, Douglas A. Martin，I Wouldn't Start from Here:


insurpassable

more insurpassable (comparative)
most insurpassable (superlative)


iffy

iffier (comparative)
iffiest (superlative)

dodgy

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

dubious

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

fishy

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

真实性或合法性值得怀疑的

He's selling new CD players for £20 each – that sounds a bit iffy to me.

他以每台20英镑的价格出售新CD机——我觉得这个价格有点可疑。

The weather is still iffy for Saturday's rocket launch.

周六的火箭发射天气仍然不太理想。

That potato salad smells a bit iffy. Don't chance it — it's not worth salmonellosis.

土豆沙拉的味道有点怪。别冒险——不值得冒沙门氏菌病的风险。

“He’s underground, anyway, so reception would be iffy.”

2020，N. K. Jemisin，The City We Became，Orbit，頁 416:

"Definitely something iffy, that's for sure.”


iffier

iffy 的比較級形式。


sugarcoated

more sugarcoated (comparative)
most sugarcoated (superlative)

表面上被做得更有吸引力的；被粉飾的


sugar-coated

more sugar-coated (comparative)
most sugar-coated (superlative)


sugar coated

more sugar coated (comparative)
most sugar coated (superlative)


underfed

more underfed (comparative)
most underfed (superlative)

[B]ut greater Bombay almost doubles the number of overworked, underhoused and underfed citizens.

但大孟买地区劳累过度、住房不足和营养不良的公民数量几乎增加了一倍。

1969，Allen V. Ross，Vice in Bombay，London: Tallis Press，頁 160:


Paleolithic

We find material evidences of magical practices in the European caves of the Palæolithic age[.]

我们在欧洲旧石器时代的洞穴中发现了施魔法的物证。

1936，Rollo Ahmed，The Black Art，London: Long，頁 18:


Bessarabian

more Bessarabian (comparative)
most Bessarabian (superlative)


stat

借自拉丁語 statim (“立即”)。

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

stat dose


qualifiable

more qualifiable (comparative)
most qualifiable (superlative)

合格的，有資格的，能勝任的

Old entrance requirements which had screened out all but the most highly qualified were revised to include all those who could be considered qualifiable with standard on-the-job-training.

旧的入职要求会筛选掉所有不具备最高资格的人员，但经过修改后，所有经过标准的在职培训而被认为合格的人员都将被纳入其中。

可修改、修飾、限制、約束的

Each consonant symbol in the shorthand is qualifiable with various vowel markers.

速记中的每个辅音符号都可以用各种元音标记来修饰。


calculant

more calculant (comparative)
most calculant (superlative)

His face is calm, down-sloped, calculant, concerned.

1930，William Faulkner，As I Lay Dying，Library of America, 出版於 1985，頁 97:


sitten

源自中古英語 siten、seten，源自古英語 seten、ġeseten, sittan (“坐”) 的過去分詞。等價於 sit + -en (過去分詞)。同源詞包括荷蘭語 gezeten、德語 gesessen。

more sitten (comparative)
most sitten (superlative)

The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.

He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.

安定的；靜止的；難以移動或攪亂的

Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.

1671，J. Livingston，Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15:


vagient

源自拉丁語 vagiens，vagire (“哭喊，嚎啕，號叫”) 的現在分詞。

more vagient (comparative)
most vagient (superlative)

哭得像小孩一樣的；嚎啕的

vagient youngling

1629，John Gaule，Practiqve Theories, or Votiue Speculations, vpon Iesvs Christs Prediction, Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, London:


recapitulant

more recapitulant (comparative)
most recapitulant (superlative)

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

1930，William Faulkner，As I Lay Dying，Library of America, 出版於 1985，頁 139:


effected

Their palette was covered with heavily effected guitars, synthetic loops and samples, electronic drums, and cold industrial sound effects.

2000，John Joseph Thompson，Raised by Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll:


anthologizable

more anthologizable (comparative)
most anthologizable (superlative)


botoné

botony的另一種寫法


adsorbant

more adsorbant (comparative)
most adsorbant (superlative)


crew neck

The designer herself was wearing tailored caramel-coloured trousers with a toning crew neck knit, because “it’s work, and I have too much to do to get dressed up”.

設計師本人穿著合身的焦糖色長褲，搭配一件相配的圓領針織衫，因為「這是工作，我有太多事情要忙，沒空精心打扮。」

2017年October2日，潔絲卡特納莫雷，“Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in 衛報:


combust

繼承自中古英語 combust (“被燃燒”)，源自古法語 combust，源自拉丁語 combustus，拉丁語 combūrere (“燒掉，燒毀”) 的完成被動分詞。

more combust (comparative)
most combust (superlative)

与太阳紧密相连，有时指定在8度30分以内

Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate.

1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，第2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
, I.iii.1.3:

Who can discern those planets that are oft Combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the Sun, untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evning or morning.


comburent

[…] the passage for comburent fluid, the opposite sides of the other diaphragm being exposed to the pressure of the combustible fluid on opposite sides of said resistance. 3. Apparatus for maintaining the proportional delivery of combustible fluid and comburent fluid supplied through separate passages to a gas-fired furnace, […]

1919，The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks:


comitant

描述注视物体时眼睛错位的程度，与注视方向无关


interminate

more interminate (comparative)
most interminate (superlative)


glabrescent

more glabrescent (comparative)
most glabrescent (superlative)


customised

more customised (comparative)
most customised (superlative)


thrown

繼承自中古英語 throwen，繼承自古英語 þrāwen、ġeþrāwen，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *þrēanaz，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *þrēaną。thran 的同源對似詞。
字面上等同於 throw + -n。

a thrown weapon

I was totally thrown by his bizarre remarks.

他的奇怪言论让我完全震惊了。


socio-political

The insane sociopolitical system

The socio-political environment in France...


calcitrant

源自拉丁語 calcitrans，calcitrare (“踢”) 的現在分詞，源自 calx (“腳跟”)、calcis (“腳跟”)。

more calcitrant (comparative)
most calcitrant (superlative)


relinquent

more relinquent (comparative)
most relinquent (superlative)


strepent

源自拉丁語 strepent，源自 strepere (“發出噪聲”)；對比 obstreperous。

more strepent (comparative)
most strepent (superlative)

Peace to the ſtrepent horn ! / Let no harſh diſſonance diſturb the morn, / No ſounds inelegant and rude / Her ſacred ſolitudes profane !

1750，William Shenstone，“Rural Elegance: An Ode to the Late Ducheſs of Somerset”, in A Collection of Poems，出版於 1758，頁 13:

But since Reaumer could never witness this, I shall not insist upon your believing it, though the relater declares that he had heard it with his ears, and seen it with his eyes, and had called many to witness the vibrating and strepent wings of this trumpeter bumble-bee.

1817，William Kirby, William Spence，An Introduction to Entomology: or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects，頁 384:


gregorian

Also, the play now opens and closes with a chant (definitely not gregorian, as that may have required some research) of Kyrie Eleison four times, not three, which is just enough to confound any Catholic in the audience and make Brecht roll over in his grave and puke.

1988年April8日，Tom Boeker，“The Duchess of Malfi”, in Chicago Reader:


severed

a severed limb


reflectent

源自拉丁語 reflectens，reflectere 的現在分詞。參見 reflect。

more reflectent (comparative)
most reflectent (superlative)


contradicted

more contradicted (comparative)
most contradicted (superlative)


too close to call

（比賽、選舉等）勢均力敵，不相上下


rehabilitant

more rehabilitant (comparative)
most rehabilitant (superlative)

康復的；恢復的；被改造的

There are no differences, on any of the twenty factors studied, between the rehabilitant and non-rehabilitant groups.

在所研究的二十个因素中，康复组和非康复组之间没有差异。

1961，Dissertation Abstracts - Volume 21, Issue 4，頁 2980:

However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.

2007，Joanna Blake，Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN:

Recently sensory involvement in relation to pain has been studied asserting the clinical observation of pain ranging from mild to severe in the acute and rehabilitant phases.

2011，Doug Elliott, Leanne Aitken, Wendy Chaboyer，ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing, →ISBN，頁 468:


non-venomous

The python is a nonvenomous snake.


relevate

借自拉丁語 relevātus，relevō (“提起，举起；减轻、缓解、减轻”) 的完成時被動分詞；對比中古法語及現代法語 relever，還有英語 relevation。relieve 的同源對似詞。


investient

more investient (comparative)
most investient (superlative)


structural

more structural (comparative)
most structural (superlative)

Class 1. consists of nervous diseases, such as depend on the nervous and muscular systems; the second, of sanguine diseases, such as depend on the sanguiferous system; the third, of secretory diseases, or such as are connected with the state of the secretions; and the fourth, of structural diseases, or those that are connected with the nutritive powers.

第一类是神经系统疾病，例如依赖于神经和肌肉系统的疾病；第二类是血液系统疾病，例如依赖于血液系统；第三类是分泌性疾病，或与分泌状态有关的疾病；第四类是结构性疾病，或与营养能力有关的疾病。

1814，Thomas Young，“An Introduction to Medical Literature, including a System of practical Nosology”, in The Monthly Review，頁 185:


reptant

源自拉丁語 rēptō (“我爬行”)。


sorrowed

I was sorrowed to hear of your loss.

听到你失去亲人的消息，我感到非常难过。


iterant

more iterant (comparative)
most iterant (superlative)


massier

massy 的比較級形式。


commoved

more commoved (comparative)
most commoved (superlative)

The clerk, as I conjectured him to be from his appearance, was also commoved; for, sitting opposite to Mr. Morris, that honest gentleman's terror communicated itself to him, though he wotted not why.

我从他的外表猜测那位职员也很惊慌；因为他坐在莫里斯先生对面，这位诚实绅士的恐惧感传到了他身上，尽管他不知道原因。


renunciant

more renunciant (comparative)
most renunciant (superlative)


irrecognisable

more irrecognisable (comparative)
most irrecognisable (superlative)


out of hand

more out of hand (comparative)
most out of hand (superlative)

Clean things as you go so that the mess does not get out of hand.

边走边清理，以免杂乱的东西失控。

Figueiredo's troops got out of hand and disgraced themselves by mutilating the Spanish dead and wounded on the field of battle.

1892，James Fitzmaurice-Kelly，The life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra，London Chapman & Hall, 出版於 1892:

Shepard: The Alliance sent me to bring you in, Major. Can't you see this has gotten out of hand? Don't you understand you're endangering your followers?

谢泼德：少校，联盟派我来接你。难道你看不出来事情已经失控了吗？难道你不明白你正在危及你的追随者吗？

2008，BioWare，Mass Effect，Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC，幕：Presrop:


advertent

inadvertent 的逆構詞。
源自拉丁語 advertent-、advertens，advertere 的現在分詞，源自動詞 adverto (“注意，留意”)。

more advertent (comparative)
most advertent (superlative)

Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported

1828，Matthew Hale, David Young，On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations，頁 227:

There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.

存在故意疏忽的情况，即可以预见损害是可能发生的。

Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]

1998，Keith John Michael Smith，Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law，頁 283:


representable

more representable (comparative)
most representable (superlative)


occular

ocular的拼寫錯誤。

"Has it?" said Arthur, his eyes not wavering for a moment. "It has," said Ford with a similar degree of occular immobility.

1982，Douglas Adams，Life, the Universe and Everything，頁 16:


lumpatious

源自 lump (“塊/瘤/皰”) + -ious，創造於《阿珊與凱特》集數《#臭腦》。

more lumpatious (comparative)
most lumpatious (superlative)

Beck: "My fist just touched Sinjin's fist, weird right?" FEELING: Lumpatious
#*:: 貝克：「我的拳頭剛剛碰到辛晉的拳頭，很奇怪吧？」感想：很可惡

The memory of that scene was now eclipsed as Patrick looked first through, then past, Monique into the same garden, its lovely ambience disfigured by the lumpatious and immovable trio sitting around, waiting to be fed again.

那個場景的記憶如今黯然失色，因為派翠克先是透過莫妮克，再望向她身後的同一個花園。那原本迷人的氛圍如今被坐在那裡、一動不動、討厭的三人組所破壞，他們正等著再一次被餵食。

(Can we date this quote?)，路易阿比科赫，A BLIND BIT OF DIFFERENCE，Lulu.com, →ISBN:

... with Lala and her date Laurie and went off with them. Chelsea saw Darren and she started chatting with him. Barbie and Stacie went around admiring the hall. “This place is top-notch,” Barbie said. “Yeah it's lumpatious,” Stacie.

和拉拉以及她的約會對象勞瑞一起離開了。切爾西看到達倫後便和他聊了起來。芭比和史黛西四處走動，欣賞著大廳的裝潢。「這地方真是頂級啊，」芭比說。「對啊，簡直太噁心了，」史黛西附和道。

2019年November28日，雷納阿羅拉，Secrets in the City，Notion Press, →ISBN: