| 单词 | ekphrastic |
| 例句 | ekphrastic adjectiveWORD NOTE ekphrastic My candidate for the ugliest word in the language is ekphrastic. An ekphrastic poem is one that has a painting or other work of art as its subject, and that's a legitimate category, God knows. But I'd go to lengths to avoid using ekphrastic, which, in addition to sounding academic and pompous, sounds plain ugly—with the ek succeeded so soon by the ic. I believe the second-ugliest word is carbuncular, as in the “young man carbuncular” who beds the typist in T. S. Eliot's “The Waste Land”; Eliot wants us to see this fellow as a sort of human pimple. There's a three-way tie for third place, courtesy of the medical profession: colonoscopy, catheter, oncology. — DLConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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