| 单词 | asperity |
| 释义 | asperity (once / 4217 pages) n Asperity is the harsh tone or behavior people exhibit when they’re angry, impatient, or just miserable. When your supervisor’s “Late again!” greeting causes your entire future to pass before your eyes, he is speaking with asperity. The harshness that asperity implies can also apply to conditions, like "the asperities of life in a bomb shelter." Or even more literally to surfaces, like "the asperity of an unfinished edge." But, most often, you will see asperity used in reference to grumpy human beings. WORD FAMILYasperity: asperities USAGE EXAMPLESHe insists, with increasing asperity, that the half-dozen debates sanctioned by the national party aren’t enough, joining Sanders in demanding more. Los Angeles Times(Aug 21, 2015) Dawkins’s bracing asperities are now routinely met in kind: ‘Puffed up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant’ was one columnist’s string of adjectives for him. Salon(Aug 15, 2015) “I’m sure I would be, if I had a chance to read anything she writes,” said the fellow with a note of asperity. Forbes(Aug 03, 2014) 1n harshness of manner Syn|Ant|Hyper sharpness bluntness, dullness without sharpness or clearness of edge or point ill nature a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition 2n something hard to endure the asperity of northern winters Syn|Hypo|Hyper grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity sternness the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding difficultness, difficulty the quality of being difficult |
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