flippant

FREQ #41046

a. 轻率的, 没礼貌的, 嘴碎的

发音

UK /ˈflɪp.ənt/
其它
US /ˈflɪp.ənt/

词形变化

more flippant 比较级 most flippant 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

    轻浮

    轻佻

    无礼

  2. 2.

    Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity.

    古体

    November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech.

  3. 3.

    Nimble; limber.

    方言

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

light-minded

近义相关 1

frivolous

词源

1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present participle of flip (“to babble”), of North Germanic origin. Cognate with Icelandic fleipa (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal flepa (“to talk nonsense”). Alteration of -and suffix (a variant of the participial -ing) to -ant probably due to influence from words in -ant.

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