piratical

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /paɪˈɹætɪkɘl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
    — A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;
  2. Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.

词形变化

more piratical comparative most piratical superlative piratic alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
biopiratical piratically unpiratical

词源

From Latin pīrāticus + -al, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτικός (peirātikós); equivalent to pirate + -ical.
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