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词汇 enormity
释义 enormity
noun
uk /ɪˈnɔː.mə.ti/ us /əˈnɔːr.mə.t̬i/

enormitynoun (SIZE)


[ U ]
very great size or importance: 巨大;严重性;深远影响
enormity ofNobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.没人完全认清复兴该国经济这一任务的艰巨性和复杂性。
I don't think you realize the enormity of the problem.我觉得你没有真正意识到问题的严重性。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enormous
astronomical
astronomically
behemoth
bigly
by far and awayidiom
immeasurably
immense
immensity
inordinate
inordinately
precipitous
stratospheric
stratospherically
super-colossal
supersized
terrific
thumping
walloping
yawning
yawningly

enormitynoun (EVIL ACT)


[ C or U ]formal
an extremely evil act or the quality of being extremely evil滔天罪行;罪大恶极
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Morally wrong and evil
abhorrent
abhorrently
amoral
amorality
anomie
dissipated
dissolute
dissolutely
dissoluteness
evil
nefariousness
no goodidiom
no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
non-ethical
obscene
trespass
turpitude
unconscionable
unconscionably
unethical

enormity | American Dictionary


enormity
noun
us/ɪˈnɔr·mə·t̬i/

enormitynoun (LARGENESS)


[ U ]
great size or amount:
The enormity of the wilderness awed us.

enormitynoun (TERRIBLE QUALITY)


[ C/U ]
a terrible or immoral act, or how terrible or immoral something is:
[ U ]Shock over the enormity of the crime has subsided.
[ C ]Goya’s etchings depict in shocking detail the enormities of war.

Examples of enormity


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Perhaps it is only human nature for us to be interested in one another's enormities.
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They escape the enormities that we have to suffer.
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There is a slight sign of enormities again.
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How can he justify many of the absurdities and enormities that flow from the existing regulations?
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I wondered whether he had fled into the night because he was aghast at the enormities of our statistical, or mystical statistical, civilisation.
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Whatever the enormities of what he was doing, his political diaries have made an immense contribution for anybody who wants to know anything about politics.
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There is a basis for settlement, and that settlement would surely overtake the enormities of the present and many of the past.
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The sentencing council would take stronger views than the guidelines on such matters and expose some of the enormities.
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I am all for having enormities brought to light.
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If there are enormities let us be clear about them and be satisfied that they have been dealt with.
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He gets out his little black book and looks for enormities—more and more enormities.
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I am anxious that it should play its full part—indeed, perhaps more than its full part—in rectifying as far as possible with others concerned the enormities of past colonial policy.
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I cannot do more than draw the attention of the other place to the enormities of clause 4 and hope that it will take that to heart.
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I do not know how, in fact, it is possible to arrive at a conclusion on this matter without knowing something about its previous enormities, its previous iniquities.
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The carelessness of the scientists' team during the process led to the four new volunteers being transformed into enormities.
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