flippant

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈflɪp.ənt/    美 /ˈflɪp.ənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
    — a sort of flippant, vain discourse
  2. Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity. archaic
    — November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech.
  3. Nimble; limber. dialectal

词形变化

more flippant comparative most flippant superlative

词汇关系

反义词
serious
衍生词
flippancy flippantly flippantness unflippant
相关词
irreverent pert facetious frivolous

词源

1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present participle of flip (“to babble”), of North Germanic origin. Cognate with Icelandic fleipa (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal flepa (“to talk nonsense”). Alteration of -and suffix (a variant of the participial -ing) to -ant probably due to influence from words in -ant.
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