| 单词 | achromatous |
| 释义 | achromatous in British English (əˈkrəʊmətəs) adjective having little or no colour or less than is normal achromatous in American English (eɪˈkroʊmətəs) adjective without color, or without enough color Word origin Gr achrōmatos: see achromaticachromatous in American English (eiˈkroumətəs) adjective 1. without color 2. having little or inadequate color; lighter in color than normal Word origin [achromat(ic) + -ous]-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous) |
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