| 单词 | outrageous |
| 释义 | out·ra·geous 1. a. < the outrageous weather we have been afflicted with — New Yorker > b. < the text matches the illustrations in this outrageous tale — Margaret F. Kieran > < the old outrageous gaiety and dash — Time > < an outrageous scheme > 2. < know well … how formidable a creature you are when you become once outrageous — William Cowper > 3. a. < an outrageous policy of reprisals > < an outrageous murder > b. < outrageous discourtesy > < outrageous language > Synonyms: < outrageous treatment of prisoners > < the general conviction that patent and outrageous crime would bring divine vengeance — H.O.Taylor > < outrageous as it was to open a leaden coffin, to see if a woman dead nearly a week were really dead — Bram Stoker > monstrous applies to what is abnormally or fantastically absurd, wrong, or horrible < remarks of such a monstrous nature that Mr. Powell had no option but to accept them for gruesome jesting — Joseph Conrad > < the very horror with which men spoke … quite plainly indicates that such a wholesale massacre was exceptional, monstrous — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < their faces, which were more horrible to human sight than if they had been creatures of a monstrous nightmare — J.C.Powys > heinous describes that which excites extremest hatred, loathing, and horror < a murder, and a particularly heinous murder, for it involves the violation of hospitality and of gratitude — R.P.Warren > atrocious may apply to fierce or barbarous merciless cruelty, violence, or contempt of sanctioned values < an atrocious murder of a child > < atrocious treatment of displaced persons > < atrocious acts which can only take place in a slave country — C.R.Darwin > These words are frequently interchangeable and all lend themselves to hyperbolic descriptions of anything deprecated at the moment < outrageous service > < a monstrous imposition > < a heinous blunder > < atrocious weather > |
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