| 单词 | anovulant |
| 释义 | anovulant in British English (ænˈɒvjʊlənt) medicine noun 1. any drug preventing ovulation adjective 2. preventing ovulation anovulant in American English (ænˈɑvjələnt, -ˈouvjə-) adjective 1. of, characterized by, or pertaining to a lack of or suppression of ovulation noun 2. a substance that suppresses ovulation Word origin [1965–70; an-1 + ovul(ate) + -ant]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Finlandization, hired gun, isometric exercise, overdub, red-eyean- is a prefix occurring before stems beginning with a vowel or h in loanwords from Greek, where it means “not,” “without,” “lacking” (anarchy; anecdote); used in the formation of compound words. Other words that use the affix an- include: anarchy, anelasticity, anomalous, anonymous, anopheles; -ant is a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from verbs, occurring originally in Frenchand Latin loanwords (pleasant; constant; servant) and productive in English on this model; -ant has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of” that namedby the stem (ascendant; pretendant), esp. in the formation of nouns denoting human agents in legal actions or otherformal procedures (tenant; defendant; applicant; contestant). In technical and commercial coinages, -ant is a suffix of nouns denoting impersonal physical agents (propellant; lubricant; deodorant). In general, -ant can be added only to bases of Latin origin, with a very few exceptions, as coolant |
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