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hedonist

/heed-n-ist/US // ˈhid n ɪst //

享乐主义者,享乐主义者,享乐者,享乐主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also he·don·is·tic. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hedonist or hedonism.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • His Bill isn’t a fratty hedonist so much as a man too psychologically compartmentalized to face his own misdeeds.

  • The old Don was a loving father and husband, and a hedonist.

  • In Dornan's telling, Clinton was a "self-indulgent hedonist and phony," a dabbler in drugs, a letch.

  • Reading that, the stranger would not necessarily (I hope) be transformed into a detrimental Hedonist.

  • The greatest poets, however, do not accept the point of view either of the extreme moralist or of the hedonist.

  • He is not what is called a social philosopher, a pretentious hedonist, who talks continuously and floridly about himself.

  • The restraints of Christians saddened him simply because he was more hedonist than a healthy man should be.

  • In an hedonist age pleasure has always sunk low, so that it has to be encouraged.