| 单词 | visceral |
| 释义 | visceral (once / 8301 pages) 1adj 2adj When something's visceral, you feel it in your guts. A visceral feeling is intuitive — there might not be a rational explanation, but you feel that you know what's best, like your visceral reaction against egg salad. Your hatred of mice may not be rational, but it is visceral, and every time you see one, you feel like you're going to faint. And when you had to decide whether you were going to stay in Florida or move to Texas, even though you had a good job in Orlando you had a visceral feeling that Texas would be the right choice . . . and it turned out you were meant to be a rancher! Visceral can also mean “relating to the viscera,” with viscera being your organs. WORD FAMILYvisceral: viscerally USAGE EXAMPLESThat would lead to further manipulation of the deeply visceral fear of newcomers to the U.S. that was exposed during the election campaigns, McKenzie said. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) Mali is a Welsh name, a tribute to my husband’s visceral Welshness. New York Times(Dec 24, 2016) Her work calls for a new term uniting the visual and visceral. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1 adj relating to or affecting the viscera 2visceral bleeding Syn splanchnic adj obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation Syn intuitive, nonrational illogical, unlogical lacking in correct logical relation |
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