ReadWriteQuiz
Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.exhausted
我们已经弹尽粮绝了。
We have run out of ammunition and provisions.
为什么要斩尽杀绝？
Why kill them all?
方法都用绝了。
All possible means and ways have been tried.
synonym
- 2
adv.in the least; by any means
这绝不可能。
It is absolutely impossible.
这种现象绝不是偶然。
This phenomenon is by no means accidental.
我绝无此意。
I have no intention of doing so.
- 3
v.cut off; sever
不要绝人后路。
Don't cut off other's retreat.
你的后路已绝。
Your back is against the wall.
整个大厅掌声不绝。
The whole hall burst into applause.
- 4
adj.unique; superb
他们的布景设计经常让人拍案叫绝。
Their set designs are always stunning.
她的书画可称双绝。
Her calligraphy as well as her painting can be rated as superb works of art.
他的书法可称一绝。
His handwriting is a masterpiece.
- 5
adj.desperate
绝境
hopeless situation
绝地
desperate situation
- 6
adj.leaving no leeway; making no allowance
- 7
adv.extremely; most
绝大多数
the most
synonym
- 8
v.be breathless
气绝
be breathless
- 9
n.quatrain
绝句
quatrain
Words and phrases with 绝
- 绝食[word]fast
- 绝句[word]quatrain
- 绝杀[word]buzzer beater; buzzer beat
- 绝缘体[word]insulator
- 绝不[word]absolutely not
- 绝命[word]kill oneself
- 绝路[word]leave no way out; blind alley
- 绝伦[word]peerless
- 绝缘层[word]insulation layer
- 绝无仅有[idiom]only one of its kind
- 绝世无双[idiom]be absolutely matchless and unparalleled
- 绝长补短[idiom]make up a deficiency by the surplus
- 绝世佳人[idiom]incomparable beauty
- 绝壁悬崖[idiom]an inaccessible precipice and a hanging cliff
- 绝处逢生[idiom]escape by the skin of one's teeth
- 绝路逢生[idiom]find rescue in desperate circumstances
- 绝代佳人[idiom]woman of matchless/peerless beauty
- 绝子绝孙[idiom]One's posterity may be cut off.
Word usage
- Note"绝" is different from "决". "决" indicates the subjective attitude; "绝" indicates the objective and complete negation, excluding other possibilities.