litotes

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /laɪˈtəʊ.tiːz/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
    — The delicacy which prompts a later generation to reject that name is by no means necessarily a result of stricter habits, is far more often due to the flatness which comes of untiring repetition and to the greater piquancy of litotes.
  2. A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.; The negation of a negative quality to assert a positive. countable,especially,rhetoric,uncountable

词形变化

litotes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
litotic litotical litotically
相关词
paradiastole double negative

词源

Learned borrowing from Late Latin lītotēs, from Ancient Greek λιτότης (litótēs, literally “plainness”), from λιτός (litós, “simple”).
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