| 单词 | asymmetric |
| 释义 | asymmetric (once / 64587 pages) adj You describe something as asymmetric when it lacks the mirror-image quality of symmetry. That dress your sister sewed for you may appear stylishly asymmetric, but really the reason the sleeves are different lengths is because she doesn’t know how to use a tape measure. The a- prefix comes from Latin and makes a word into its opposite, so asymmetric is the opposite of symmetric. Asymmetric often describes an intentional part of a design, like a shirt with an asymmetric neckline. But it can also describe something that is the result of a mistake, injustice, or deformity, like asymmetric growth in a body, which may be a sign of disease. WORD FAMILYasymmetry: asymmetric, asymmetrical, asymmetries+/asymmetrical: asymmetrically USAGE EXAMPLESThe left has waged asymmetric political warfare, routinely traducing the same norms is was demanding its opponents respect. Wall Street Journal(Nov 21, 2016) "They will go back to more asymmetric warfare, and we will be seeing suicide attacks inside KRG, inside Iraqi cities and elsewhere." Reuters(Nov 16, 2016) I hope that Mr. Trump’s asymmetric, weirdly brazen dishonesty has broken reporters of the bad habits of false equivalency, euphemism and forced balance. New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) adj characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components Syn|Ant asymmetrical irregular contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice lopsidedhaving one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other noninterchangeablesuch that the terms of an expression cannot be interchanged without changing the meaning unsymmetric, unsymmetricallacking symmetry symmetric, symmetrical having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts parallelbeing everywhere equidistant and not intersecting regularin accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle bilateral, bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateralhaving identical parts on each side of an axis biradialshowing both bilateral and radial symmetry cruciate, cruciformshaped like a cross even, regularsymmetrically arranged interchangeable(mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged isosceles(of a triangle) having two sides of equal length radial, radiate, stellatearranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center centrosymmetric, radially symmetricalhaving a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point rhombohedral, trigonalhaving threefold symmetry |
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