headliny

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a headline (the heading or title of an article); typical of or incorporating headlinese. informal
    — The president [Franklin D. Roosevelt] turned aside a query as to whether [Winston] Churchill seemed confident that Britain could win without American help with the observation that the question was “headliny” without having sufficient substance.
  2. Hitting the headlines; (worthy of) having or being given headlines. informal
    — Doak rung up a two-bagger, but his gardening in the alfalfa was not of the headliny variety.
  3. Resembling, characteristic of, or worthy of being a headline or headliner (the top-billed attraction or performer). informal
    — Gee Gee James was again on the bill, to the great disgust of the local critics, who have failed to see anything headliny about her work, while George Wiltshire was a jocose M.C.—but only got by because of the splendid support of Apus Brooks, the blackface shorty, who held him up, and carried him over.

词形变化

headlinier comparative headliniest superlative headliney alternative

词源

From headline + -y.
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