inclement

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈklɛm.ənt/|/ˈɪn.kləm.ənt/    美 /ɪnˈklɛm.ənt/|/ˈɪn.kləm.ənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Stormy, of rough weather; not clement.
    — inclement weather
  2. Merciless, unrelenting. obsolete
    — He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
  3. Unmercifully severe in temper or action. archaic

词形变化

more inclement comparative most inclement superlative

词汇关系

反义词
clement
衍生词
inclementness
相关词
inclemency inclemently

词源

From Latin inclēmēns (“unmerciful, severe”), from in- (“not”) + clēmēns (“mild, placid”).
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