| 单词 | ravishing |
| 释义 | ravishing (once / 4161 pages) adj The adjective ravishing describes something or someone of exceptional beauty. If you say the dress your friend picked for the prom is ravishing, you mean it's beautiful and she looks beautiful in it. The adjective ravishing comes from the verb ravish, which is from the Latin word rapere, meaning to seize. In English, the verb meant to plunder or to carry away, and later a sense arose that meant to carry away in pleasure, or to seduce. So a dress that is ravishing is seductive or sexy––or, as the word became more popular, simply beautiful, as in "ravishing scenery." WORD FAMILYravishing: ravishingly+/ravish: ravished, ravisher, ravishes, ravishing, ravishment/ravisher: ravishers/ravishment: ravishments USAGE EXAMPLESBut its look, as The Times’s technology columnist David Pogue put it in his review, was “ravishing.” New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) By the time Moonlight reaches its ravishing conclusion, that group includes us, too. Slate(Oct 20, 2016) Mr. Rattle’s order, together with the tautness and ravishing quality of the performance, emphasized that Classicism to fine effect. New York Times(Oct 07, 2016) adj stunningly beautiful a ravishing blonde Syn beautiful delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration |
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