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    Demoniacal describes something wild, , and evil — as if a demon were driving it. A demoniacal laugh, a demoniacal rage, a demoniacal look: the word paints a person or act that has gone past ordinary anger into something and not quite human. Though actually, people almost never use it today because they believe in demons in the room. It is an old, heavy, literary adjective. In modern English, demonic is the more common cousin, and even that is often just a strong way to say “very wild” or “very cruel.” You will meet demoniacal in novels and older writing more than in speech. Using it about a noisy classroom would sound like a joke, or like you were on stage.

    惡魔般的、狂暴凶惡的(文學用語)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成From Latin daemoniacus + English -al. daemoniacus already meant “of a demon” or “possessed.”

同家族的字

  • demonthe noun at the root: an evil spirit
  • demonica more common adjective in the same family
  • demoniacan older adjective/noun from the same Latin source
  • demoniacallythe adverb: demoniacal + -ly

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

demoniacaladj/ˌdiːməˈnaɪəkəl/

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    Pertaining to, characteristic of, or produced by a demon or evil spirit; devilish, demonic, fiendish.

    • sarcastic, demoniacal laughter
    • Rebecca laughed in her face, with a horrid sarcastic demoniacal laughter, that almost sent the schoolmistress into fits.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。