incestuous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈsɛstjuəs/|/ɪnˈsɛst͡ʃuəs/    美 /ɪnˈsɛst͡ʃuəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to or engaging in incest.
    — If you engaged in an incestuous relationship with a family member, that would make you an inbreeder.
  2. Characterized by mutual relationships that are intimate and exclusive to the detriment of outsiders.
    — It’s an incestuous thing. Faculty at the liberal, Ivy League schools are involved in hiring other faculty, who later hire the next generation of faculty. There’s very little intellectual or philosophical diversity in our newsrooms as a result. Furthermore, as I pointed out in the book, there’s a large number of so-called journalists who work for Democrat politicians, who go back and forth between politics and journalism.

词形变化

more incestuous comparative most incestuous superlative

词汇关系

近义词
incestual incesty
衍生词
incestuously incestuousness nonincestuous pseudoincestuous twincestuous unincestuous

词源

Etymology tree
English incest
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English incestuous
From incest + -ous.
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