unterrific

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Unterrifying; not causing or involving terror.
    — It was like the dark, cold, but unterrific and comparatively soothing night, that succeeds to a day of storm and earthquake.
  2. Unexceptional, ordinary.
    — Of these the nearest — yet about twelve miles distant — is the before-named Brezon, a majestic, but unterrific, fortalice of cliff, forest, and meadow, with unseen nests of village, and unexpected balm and honey of garden and orchard nursed in its recesses.

词形变化

more unterrific comparative most unterrific superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *tres-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti
Proto-Italic *trozeō
Latin terreō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *θakos
Proto-Italic *-fakos
Latin -ficus
Latin terrificusder.
French terrifiqueder.
English terrific
English unterrific
From un- + terrific.
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