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单词 enormity
释义
enormitye‧nor‧mi‧ty /ɪˈnɔːməti $ -ɔːr-/ AWL noun (plural enormities) Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • In his interview, he discussed the enormity of the agency's task.
  • The enormity of our country's economic problems is overwhelming.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But how could the children understand the enormity of the killing if they were not punished?
  • Even the most intrepid social workers were aghast at the enormity of it all.
  • I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it.
  • Incomprehensible, the enormity of it all.
  • Sometimes, the enormity of it is overwhelming.
  • The enormity of what she had seen was now topped by the further enormity of involving the police.
  • The Toscanini presentation was breathtaking, if for no other reason than its enormity.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounenormityadjectiveenormousadverbenormously
1[singular] the great size, seriousness, or difficulty of a situation, problem, event etcenormity of Even now, the full enormity of his crimes has not been exposed. the enormity of the task2[countable usually plural] formal a very evil and cruel act SYN  atrocity
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