echt

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
    — I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

词形变化

more echt comparative most echt superlative

词源

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”). First use in English appears c. 1916.
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