| 单词 | sesquipedality |
| 释义 | sesquipedality (once / 1074483 pages) n Sesquipedality is the habit or style of using extremely long, fancy words. Your English teacher might return the rough draft of your paper covered with red marks and a request to tone down the sesquipedality. You couldn't ask for a longer, fancier, or more complicated word than sesquipedality to describe the use of long, fancy, complicated words. This formal noun comes from the slightly more common adjective sesquipedalian, "long, long-winded, or having many syllables," which was itself originally a noun meaning "something measuring a foot and a half long." The Latin root is sesquipedalia verba, "words a foot and a half long." WORD FAMILYsesquipedality: sesquipedalities+/sesquipedalian: sesquipedality USAGE EXAMPLESHis height was certainly not remarkable; but his width of shoulder—his sesquipedality of stomach—and obesity of calf—these were unique! Ainsworth, William Harrison, Rookwood(2010) Would you have thought that so much sesquipedality could die? Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No...(2010) n using long words Hyper expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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