- 1充滿火藥味的、劍拔弩張的
An acrimonious meeting, talk, divorce, or split is one where people do not just disagree — they get sharp, angry, and often . Voices go up. Old hurts come out. Nobody is trying to be gentle. It is a formal, newspaper word. You find it in writing about , business fights, and family law, not in a chat with a friend ('We had an acrimonious lunch' would sound stiff). The feeling is bitter, like a taste that stays in the mouth. Though actually, it is about how people treat each other in the fight, not about how hard the topic is. Two scientists can argue about facts without it being acrimonious; it becomes acrimonious when the anger turns personal and sour. It almost always describes events between people — a debate, a break-up, a court case — not a quiet person sitting alone, and not a loud happy argument among friends.
組成From acrimony + -ous ('full of'). Acrimony is the bitter anger between people. The trail goes back to Latin ācrimōnia, 'sharpness' — first a sharp taste, later a sharp feeling.
同家族的字
- acrimonythe angry, sour feeling; acrimonious means full of that feeling
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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acrimoniousadj/ˌæk.ɹɪˈməʊ.nɪ.əs/
- 1
archaicHarsh and sharp, or bitter and not pleasant to the taste; acrid, pungent.
- The old man […] began to suffer in the body as well as the mind. He had formed the determination of setting out in person for Dumfriesshire, when, after having been dogged, peevish, and snappish to his clerks and domestics, to an unusual and almost intolerable degree, the acrimonious humours settled in a hissing-hot fit of the gout, which is a well-known tamer of the most froward spirits, […]
- [I]t is sufficiently evident from the physiology of man, that boils and eruptions cannot be produced in perfectly healthy persons through the action of water, since water is a matter the most conceivably mild, and since boils produce a feeling always painful, and more or less acrimonious and corrosive, which can only be caused by acrid corrosive matters, or by biting animalculae which form the boil.
- 2
Angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter, mean-spirited, sharp in language or tone.
- Theſe points are diſcuſſed with the ability and learning which diſtinguiſh the Right Reverend Author's [Samuel Horsley's] publications, but not without acrimonious expreſſions of contempt and indignation againſt his opponent [Joseph Priestley].
- Lord Aberdeen is indignant that he is described as the tool of Russia, and to prove his independence, vows that he has, when Secretary of State, written very "acrimonious" despatches against that Power. Secretaries of State ought never to write "acrimonious" despatches. […] If the letters of Lord Aberdeen to the "foreign conspirators," who are his correspondents at Paris and elsewhere, had been a little more acrimonious as regards Russia, affairs might have been better, […]
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