| 单词 | sesquipedalian |
| 释义 | sesquipedalian (once / 132802 pages) nadj Use the adjective sesquipedalian to describe a word that's very long and multisyllabic. For example the word sesquipedalian is in fact sesquipedalian. Sesquipedalian can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. If someone gives a sesquipedalian speech, people often assume it was smart, even if they don’t really know what it was about because they can’t understand the words. Each of those long words is referred to as a sesquipedalia. Antidisestablishmentarianism is a sesquipedalia: in fact it’s the longest non-coined and nontechnical word in the English language. WORD FAMILYsesquipedalian: sesquipedality+/sesquipedality: sesquipedalities USAGE EXAMPLESBy the way, this is sometimes known in more general circles as sesquipedalian loquaciousness. US News(May 26, 2016) As it would have been an absurdity to have appended diminutives to sesquipedalian names, national wit, rather than deliberate plan, prevented it. Bardsley, Charles W., Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature(2012) This “ornate style” introduced sesquipedalian Latinisms, words of immense dimensions, that could not hide their vacuity of thought. Disraeli, Isaac, Amenities of Literature—Consisting...(2011) 1n a very long word (a foot and a half long) Syn|Hyper sesquipedalia polysyllabic word, polysyllable a word of more than three syllables 2adj given to the overuse of long words sesquipedalian orators this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money Syn pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction 3adj (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables sesquipedalian technical terms Syn polysyllabic long primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified |
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