nefandous
Étymologie
modifierAdjectif
modifier| Nature | Forme |
|---|---|
| Positif | nefandous |
| Comparatif | more nefandous |
| Superlatif | most nefandous |
nefandous
- Épouvantable, terrible, affreux.
Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High.
— (Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, 1684)It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.
— (H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, 1931)some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, nefandous conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashion away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia.
— (Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, 1999)
Synonymes
modifierPrononciation
modifier- (Royaume-Uni) : \nɪˈfandəs\
- (États-Unis) : \nəˈfændəs\
- Royaume-Uni (Sud de l'Angleterre) : écouter « nefandous [Prononciation ?] »
Références
modifier- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : nefandous. (liste des auteurs et autrices)