单词 | aphoristic |
释义 | aphoristic (once / 60925 pages) adj WORD FAMILY aphoristic: aphoristically+/aphorism: aphorise, aphorisms, aphorist, aphoristic, aphorize/aphorist: aphorists/aphorize: aphorized, aphorizes, aphorizing USAGE EXAMPLESA fragmentary, aphoristic examination of night in all its illuminating darkness from a Lebanese-American poet who is also an admired visual artist. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) The mercurial comedy of Wilder’s flamboyantly aphoristic script shows them to be more or less clueless—except for one thing. The New Yorker(Nov 12, 2016) Turning aphoristic, Justice Breyer mused about how people dress to express themselves. New York Times(Oct 31, 2016) 1adj terse and witty and like a maxim Syn apothegmatic, epigrammatic concise expressing much in few words 2adj containing aphorisms or maxims Syn axiomatic |
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