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• hainous (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 hainous, from Old French haïneus (compare French haineux) from haïr (“to hate”), hadir (“to hate”) (compare Old French en-hadir (“to become filled with hate”)), from Frankish *hattjan (“to hate”) (compare 中期英語 hetien). More at hate.

The fluctuation between pronunciations with /eɪ/ and /iː/ is old; the former reflects adoption of an unmonophthongised pronunciation of Old French -ai-, while the latter reflects a monophthongised form.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈheɪnəs/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhiːnəs/
• 韻: -eɪnəs

形容詞

heinous (comparative more heinous, superlative most heinous)

1. Totally reprehensible.

   I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.

   The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.

   • 2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Perhaps burdened by the weight of history, talk of the heinous 2-2 draw in 2002, or the magnitude of the fixture, Scotland seemed spooked in the early throes.

2. Bad, evil or villainous.

同意語

• (totally reprehensible): abominable, horrible, odious

反意語

• unheinous (rare)

派生語

• heinously
• heinousness
• unheinous

関連する語

• hate

Collocations

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アナグラム

• in house, in-house, inhouse