Daedalian

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Ingeniously or cunningly designed; artistic, ingenious, intricate, skillful.
    — 1812, Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations volume 1, book 2, chapter 2, page 484, published in London by Cadell and Davies "The commerce and industry of the country, ... cannot be altogether so secure when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver"
  2. Difficult to comprehend due to complexity or intricacy.
  3. Deceitful, duplicitous.

词形变化

more Daedalian comparative most Daedalian superlative Daedalean alternative Dedalian alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
daedalia

词源

Etymology tree
English Daedalus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Daedalian
From Daedalus + -ian.
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