单词 | crossness |
释义 | crossness (once / 37642 pages) n WORD FAMILY cross: crossed, crosser, crossest, crossing, crossly, crossness, uncross+/crossed: intercrossed/crossing: crossings, overcrossing/uncross: uncrossed, uncrosses, uncrossing USAGE EXAMPLESIn fifth place, with 10% of the votes, was the Crossness Engine House, and the James Watt rotative beam engine. BBC(Oct 06, 2014) I decided it would do to convey a mixture of can-you-believe-it crossness and wrenching disappointment, selected it, added zilch and pressed send. The Guardian(Aug 31, 2014) To meet criticism with kindness, crossness with geniality, insult with courtesy, and injury with charity is the way to conquer the world. Hyde, William De Witt, The Five Great Philosophies of Life(2012) 1n an irritable petulant feeling Syn|Hypo|Hyper choler, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance testiness, tetchiness, touchiness feeling easily irritated peta fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight) distemper, ill humor, ill humour an angry and disagreeable mood 2n a disposition to be ill-tempered Syn|Hyper crabbedness, crabbiness ill nature a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition |
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