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词汇 felicitous
释义 felicitous
adjective
 literaryuk /fəˈlɪs.ɪ.təs/ us /fəˈlɪs.ə.t̬əs/
suitable or right and expressing well the intended thought or feeling: 贴切的;恰当的;得体的
felicitous phraseHe summed up Jack's achievements in one or two felicitous phrases.他用一两个词语恰如其分地概括了杰克的成就。
Opposite
infelicitous
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suitable and acceptable
able
acceptability
acceptable
acceptably
accepted
convenience
conveniently
correctly
correctness
decent
decently
felicity
just what the doctor orderedidiom
legitimate
practical
quality
re-eligibility
re-eligible
relevance
relevant

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Examples of felicitous


felicitous
Both these criticisms can effectively be rebutted by specifying a felicitous feature of the universe other than fitness for humanity.
The combination of domestic arrangements with professional ambitions was not a felicitous one.
A biased felicitous condition would provide two referents for the noun that is modified by the relative clause.
For other choices, this interpretation is more natural, with the sentence judged felicitous out of context.
Mainly, the interview is not felicitous; the applicant does not make a favorable impression.
When the contexts are pragmatically felicitous, children behave like adults.
The aim of our analysis is indeed to explain what makes one genitive construction more felicitous than the competing one.
Because argument structure constructions are not synonymous, in any discourse context some constructions will be more felicitous and others will be less felicitous.
These are necessarily in the present tense, and despite their perfective nature, the sentences are completely felicitous.
Note that finish is not as versatile as got (29d), its use being restricted to activity verbs where the lexical meaning of finish is felicitous.
That explains why (11a) is felicitous whereas (11b) is ill-formed.
In order for (1) to be felicitous there should exist more than one horse in the discourse setting.
Truth is a prerequisite for felicitous use of really as a reinforcer, and the application of scalar meanings is always subjective.
The example is not so felicitous, as the range of shares is quite wide.
They are not felicitous with the phrase ' in an hour ', and this indicates that the predicate is not construed as a bounded series of events.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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