英语词汇“troglodyte”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	troglodyte
释义	Trends of troglodyte View usage for: troglodyte (trɒglədaɪt) Word forms: plural troglodytes 1. countable noun A troglodyte is someone who lives in a cave. [formal] 2. countable noun If you refer to someone as a troglodyte, you mean that they are unsophisticated and do not know very much about anything. [disapproval] He dismissed advocates of a completely free market as economic troglodytes. troglodyte in British English (ˈtrɒɡləˌdaɪt) noun 1. a cave dweller, esp one of the prehistoric peoples thought to have lived in caves 2. informal a person who lives alone and appears eccentric Derived forms troglodytic (ˌtrɒɡləˈdɪtɪk) or troglodytical (ˌtrogloˈdytical) adjective Word origin C16: via Latin from Greek trōglodutēs one who enters caves, from trōglē hole + duein to enter troglodyte in American English (ˈtrɑgləˌdaɪt) noun 1. any of the prehistoric people who lived in caves; cave man 2. a. a person who chooses to live alone in seclusion; recluse b. anyone who lives in a primitive or degenerate fashion 3. an anthropoid ape Derived forms troglodytic (ˌtrogloˈdytic) (ˈtrɑgloʊˈdɪtɪk; ˈtrɑgləˈdɪtɪk) adjective or ˌtrogloˈdytical Word origin L troglodyta < Gr trōglodytēs, one who creeps into holes, cave dweller < trōglē, a hole, cave (< trōgein, to gnaw < IE trōg- < base ter-, to rub, grind > throw) + dyein, to creep in, enter Examples of 'troglodyte' in a sentence troglodyte He could feel himself slowly melting into the kind of troglodyte you sometimes saw scurrying off the end of the subway platform. S.M. Stirling T2: INFILTRATOR (2001)
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