umbrage

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive. countable,uncountable
    — Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.
  2. A feeling of doubt. countable,uncountable
  3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees. countable,uncountable
    — It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.
  4. Shadow; shade. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
动词 v.
  1. To displease or cause offense. transitive
  2. To shade. transitive

词形变化

umbrages plural umbrages present,singular,third-person umbraging participle,present umbraged participle,past umbraged past

词汇关系

衍生词
take umbrage umbrageous

词源

词源 1
From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).
词源 2
From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).
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