单词 | complected |
释义 | complected /keuhm plek"tid/, adj. Informal. complexioned: a light-complected boy. [1800-10, Amer.; complect- (back formation from COMPLEXION, presumably taken as *complection) + -ED3] Usage. COMPLECTED, a back formation from COMPLEXION, is an Americanism dating from the early 19th century. Although it has been criticized by some as a dialectal or nonstandard substitution for COMPLEXIONED, it occurs in the speech of educated persons and occasionally in edited writing. |
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