troglodytic

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves.
    — Foremost of all, of course, were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them.
  2. Like or befitting a troglodyte; brutish, backwards, etc.
    — ‘There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr. Fell? or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent? The last, I think; for O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.’

词形变化

more troglodytic comparative most troglodytic superlative trogloditic alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
troglodytically

词源

From Latin troglodyticus, Ancient Greek τρωγλοδυτικός (trōglodutikós, “of cave-/hole-dwellers”) from τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “cave-/hole-dweller”) from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + δύω (dúō, “enter, go into”), equivalent to troglodyte + -ic.
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