| 单词 | iffy |
| 释义 | iffy (once / 42062 pages) adj When something's iffy, it's uncertain. You might want to reschedule your picnic if the weather looks iffy. Use the adjective iffy to describe things that might change, or are doubtful. If you break your ankle in June, the chances that you'll be able to run a marathon in August are iffy. You could also say that it's iffy your unreliable cousin will show up at your birthday party on time. Iffy has been around since the 1930's, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt invented it, taking the word if, turning it into an adjective, and using it often. WORD FAMILYiffy USAGE EXAMPLESAnd artists telling other artists what to do is iffy. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) Many of them were mostly due to a short game that, though not the horror show of early 2015, is still iffy. Golf Digest(Dec 05, 2016) Silly humor for the holidays with some iffy stuff. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) adj subject to accident or chance or change an iffy proposition Syn chancy, flukey, fluky uncertain not certain to occur; not inevitable |
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