insinuate英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

动词 v.

To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.

— She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.
To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices. rare

— 1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks
To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means. broadly,figuratively

— All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.

形容词 adj.

Insinuated. obsolete

— The great mistery of Christes passyon […] lyttle and lyttle at sundry seasons to bee sygnifyed and insinuate conueniently to man.

词形变化

insinuates present,singular,third-person insinuating participle,present insinuated participle,past insinuated past more insinuate comparative most insinuate superlative

词汇关系

衍生词

insinuatingly insinuatingness insinuative insinuatory uninsinuated

词源

词源 1

First attested in 1529; Borrowed from Latin īnsinuātus, perfect passive participle of īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”) -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

词源 2

First attested in 1529; Borrowed from Latin īnsinuātus, perfect passive participle of īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”) -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.