trenchant

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. archaic
    — The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
  2. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.; Adapted for tearing into flesh. archaic
    — The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids.
  3. Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe. figuratively
    — trenchant wit

词形变化

more trenchant comparative most trenchant superlative trenchaunt alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
intrenchant trenchantly trenchantness

词源

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenchant, the present participle of trenchier (“to cut”).
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