compliment

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒmplɪmənt/    美 /ˈkɑmpləmənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
    — pay someone a compliment
  2. Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery. uncountable
    — He told the Captain, He was heartily sorry for his Misfortunes; tho’ in my Opinion that was nothing but a Compliment: For, as I found afterwards, he was more brutish, and dishonest, than most of the other Kings on the Island […]
  3. Misspelling of complement. alt-of,misspelling
动词 v.
  1. To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone). ambitransitive
    — […] She transferr'd the curs'd Advice, / That Monarchs ſhould their inward Soul diſguise, / Diſſemble, and command; be falſe, and wiſe; / By ignominous Arts for ſervile Ends / Should compliment their Foes, and ſhun their Friends.
  2. Misspelling of complement. alt-of,misspelling

词形变化

compliments plural compliments present,singular,third-person complimenting participle,present complimented participle,past complimented past

词汇关系

近义词
praise
反义词
insult
衍生词
accompliment backhanded compliment backward compliment Chinese compliment complimental complimentary compliment fishing complisult left-handed compliment miscompliment poisoned compliment poisonous compliment pseudo-compliment with compliments complimentable complimentative complimentee complimenter outcompliment overcompliment
相关词
complement

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French compliment, itself a borrowing of Italian complimento, which in turn is a borrowing from Spanish cumplimiento, from cumplir (“to comply, complete, do what is proper”) + -miento or Latin complēmentum. Doublet of complement. Displaced Old English ġeswǣsnes.
词源 2
Borrowed from French complimenter, from compliment + -er (verb-forming suffix).
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