gnomic

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).
    — His birth-place was Colophon, an Ionian city of Asia-Minor; a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry, and ranking the poet Minmermus amongst its celebrated men.
  2. Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.
    — He always makes gnomic utterances.
  3. Expressing general truths or aphorisms.
    — gnomic aspect

词形变化

more gnomic comparative most gnomic superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
gnomically metagnomic
相关词
gnome

词源

From French gnomique, ultimately from Ancient Greek γνωμικός (gnōmikós), from γνώμη (gnṓmē, “thought, judgement”), akin to γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”). By surface analysis, gnome + -ic.
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