profundicate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated. rare
    — To profundify or to profundicate: A Borenverb used to denote the use of thesauric and other enrichment techniques to make a simple idea appear to be profound. […] Graduates of agricultural institutions tend to use "to profundicate" while graduates of ivy league schools tend to use "to profundify".

词形变化

profundicates present,singular,third-person profundicating participle,present profundicated participle,past profundicated past

词源

Latin profundus (“profound”) + -icate. Apparently coined by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010) in When in Doubt, Mumble: A Bureaucrat's Handbook, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972, →OCLC.
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