certifiable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crazy person. informal
    — Forget the certifiables who are scrawling Hitler mustaches on pictures of the president.
形容词 adj.
  1. That can or must be certified.
  2. Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy. informal
    — If any person said to you in 1950 that in seventeen years Miss Stalin would defect to the West, you would rightly have considered that person certifiable. She has now done it, with impressive smoothness and conviction.

词形变化

more certifiable comparative most certifiable superlative certifiables plural

词汇关系

衍生词
certifiableness certifiably noncertifiable uncertifiable

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English certify
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English certifiable
From certify + -able.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English certify
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English certifiable
From certify + -able.
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