- 1種族屠殺的、滅族的
Genocidal describes an act, a plan, a leader, or a government that aims at the deliberate murder of a whole group of people — a people, an ethnic group, a race — not just many deaths in a war, and not a fight between armies. It is the describing word built from genocide: a genocidal campaign is a campaign of that kind of killing. News, history, and law use it, and it is one of the heaviest describing words in English. Though actually, people sometimes stretch it in angry speech to mean “cruel on a huge scale,” and lawyers may argue for years about whether a given killing legally counts. For a , keep the core: the word is about trying to wipe out a whole group as a group.
組成From genocide + -al (“relating to”). Genocide is Ancient Greek génos (race, kind, a people) + English -cide (killing). That -cide goes back to Latin caedō, “to cut, to kill.”