Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

    • IPA: /ˈtɜːməɡənt/

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.
  2. (obsolete) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person, whether male or female.

Adjektiivit

  1. Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.

Esimerkit

  • [...] Make feeble ladies, in their works, / To fight like termagants and Turks; [...]
  • The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.
  • Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment – these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant, but reasonable, logical, and untiring.
  • This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh.
  • The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant.
  • These bishops with their termagant wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkotermagants
Komparatiivimore termagant
Superlatiivimost termagant