phatic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A phatic utterance.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
    — You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.

词形变化

more phatic comparative most phatic superlative phatics plural

词源

词源 1
From Ancient Greek φατός (phatós, “spoken”) - from φημί (phēmí, “I say”) - + -ic.
Probably formally influenced by emphatic, which predates this term.
词源 2
From Ancient Greek φατός (phatós, “spoken”) - from φημί (phēmí, “I say”) - + -ic.
Probably formally influenced by emphatic, which predates this term.
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