英语词汇“asperity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	asperity
释义	as·per·i·ty \aˈsperəd.ē-, əˈ-, -ətē, -i\ noun (-es) Etymology: alteration (influenced by Middle French asperité — from Latin asperitat-, asperitas, from asper rough + -itat-, -itas -ity — or by Latin asperitas) of Middle English asprete, from Old French aspreté, from aspre rough (from Latin asper) + -té -ty 1. : a characteristic making for hardship : rigor, severity < the path of beauty is not soft and smooth, but full of harshness and asperity — Havelock Ellis > 2. a. (1) : roughness of surface (as of a leaf) : unevenness (2) asperities plural : rough places : excrescences < ultramicroscopic asperities … upon the solid surface — J.W.McBain > b. obsolete : roughness to the taste : sourness, tartness c. : roughness or harshness of sound : raucousness < the elderly ladies in his audience had been shocked by the asperities of the new style in music — Aaron Copland > 3. : a characteristic making for bitterness : roughness of manner or of temper < he repented of his asperity, however, when he saw Shiloh droop his head and wither visibly into sadness — Elinor Wylie > < it caused him a passing asperity to observe her lay places for three — A.J.Cronin > : severity < the portrait … on the wall, whose painted eyes, it seemed, were now inhumanly surveying them … with some little asperity — Walter de la Mare > : tartness < a little asperity was in her voice — George Meredith >
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