| 释义 |
statusful, a.|ˈsteɪtəsfʊl|
[f. status + -ful.]
Having or conferring (high) social status or distinction.
1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 17 Oct. 57/1 Ordering a 22-carat Dunebuggy with ocelot seats and rhinestone headlamps in a bid for statusful individuality. 1975Times 22 Aug. 10/1 ‘Statusful speakers’, like BBC newsreaders. 1977J. A. Fishman in H. Glass Lang., Ethnicity & Intergroup Relations i. 37 It is not ethnicity per se that is of concern to it but the recrudescence of less statusful, narrower, ‘peripheral’ identities. 1978Amer. Speech LIII. 14 Its use implies the user's special familiarity..with that less statusful or less responsible class of people who have such special familiarity and use the term. |