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insolent
🇺🇸 /ˈɪnsʌlʌnt/
表示以傲慢、无礼的态度说话或行事;也可指这样的人。
💡 记忆钩子
把它想成一个人越过应有的礼貌界线:先是以高傲、顶撞的口气对人说话,扩大来看就是举止粗鲁无礼;名词用法则把这个无礼的人单独指出来。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握形容词的核心意思“傲慢而无礼”,再理解它可以泛指粗鲁行为。
- 不要把它只理解成“自信”或“大胆”;它通常带有明显的负面评价,也不一定专指骂人。
📖 中文释义
adj
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core 傲慢顶撞的📖 强调一个人说话时自以为是、带着轻蔑或不服从的态度,尤其是在面对不应这样对待的人时。💡 常用“be insolent to someone”描述对某人的态度,也可放在“remark”“reply”等表示言语的名词前。它比一般的无礼更突出傲慢和顶撞,常用于批评下级对上级或年轻人对长辈的态度。不要把它误当作单纯的直率或大胆,因为这个词总带有负面评价。The student was insolent to the principal when she asked him to leave.校长让那个学生离开时,他竟傲慢地顶撞她。His insolent reply made the whole room go quiet.他那句傲慢无礼的回答让整个房间都安静了下来。
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common 粗鲁无礼的📖 泛指举止、言语或态度不尊重人,重点不一定是公开顶撞,而是已经越过了基本礼貌界线。💡 常见于“insolent behavior”“an insolent gesture”等结构,也可以直接说“Don’t be insolent”。它的适用范围比单纯的“说话顶撞”更广,但仍然是强烈的负面评价。描述普通的失礼时,注意这个词往往暗示对方还带有轻蔑或自大的感觉。The waiter apologized for the insolent behavior of his colleague.那名服务员为同事的无礼行为道了歉。
more insolent
comparative
most insolent
superlative
noun
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rare 无礼的人📖 把形容词所描述的那种傲慢无礼的态度当作人的称呼,指一个表现得无礼的人。
insolents
plural
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 2 组
unrestrained by convention or propriety; ; ; - Los Angeles Times; ; ; - Bertrand Russell
同义词集:
audacious
barefaced
bodacious
bald-faced
brassy
brazen
brazen-faced
insolent
an audacious trick to pull
a barefaced hypocrite
the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim
bald-faced lies
brazen arrogance
the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
marked by casual disrespect;
同义词集:
impudent
insolent
snotty-nosed
flip
a flip answer to serious question
the student was kept in for impudent behavior
近似: disrespectful
🌳 词源
经由中古英语和古法语,源自拉丁语,原本含有“不合习惯、过度、傲慢”等意思。
PIE word
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From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īnsolēns (“unaccustomed, unwanted, unusual, immoderate, excessive, arrogant, insolent”), from in- (privative prefix) + solēns, present participle of solēre (“to be accustomed, to be wont”).
🔄 变式
insolents
plural
more insolent
compar
most insolent
superl
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