censorious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
    — Be not too rigidly Cenſorious, / A ſtring may jarr in the beſt Maſters hand, / And the moſt skilfull Archer miſs his aim; / But in a Poem elegantly writ, / I will not quarrel with a ſlight miſtake, / Such as our Natures frailty may excuſe; […]
  2. Implying or expressing censure.
    — censorious remarks
  3. Tending to engage in or support censorship. proscribed
    — Chick-Fil-A^([sic]) has survived and thrived because they served everyone AND refused to cater to the cancel culture. Now they’ve caved at the behest of the censorious Left. This is a terrible move and just the latest indicator that the center cannot hold.

词形变化

more censorious comparative most censorious superlative

词汇关系

反义词
noncensorious uncensorious
衍生词
censoriously censoriousness

词源

From Latin cēnsōrius (“of or pertaining to a censor; severe”). In sense 3 ("tending to engage in or support censorship"), reanalyzed as censor + -ious.
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