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nihilistic

/nahy-uh-lis-tik/US // ˌnaɪ əˈlɪs tɪk //

虚无主义,虚无主义的,虚无主义者,虚无缥缈的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
    • : embracing anarchy, terrorism, and destruction: nihilstic tactics learned in a terrorist bootcamp.
    • : Philosophy. of or believing in an extreme form of skepticism; belief in nothingness.

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Examples

  • Suffice to say that this time around, the show is less about ultra-privileged mean girls destroying each other for kicks than it is about relatively decent people getting lured into those same nihilistic power struggles.

  • Dadaists at Zürich’s Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 pioneered a nihilistic aesthetic, born out of the trauma of World War I, that is surely a great-grandparent of lol nothing matters GIFs.

  • Braird, the older, meanwhile, was entering his teens, differentiating and waxing nihilistic.

  • Bright lights, big city — they’re still bright, still big and there’s still something bitterly nihilistic in the mix.

  • Secretary of State John Kerry called the group, “ugly, savage, inexplicable, nihilistic, valueless evil.”

  • That may be partially because The Big Lebowski is their most nihilistic presentation.

  • They are poached instead of hard-boiled, boasting anti-heroes with nihilistic worldviews who are nevertheless vulnerable.

  • The answer is that it was not, being instead a series of dissociated gestures that flopped right into a nihilistic void.

  • They say they will “listen to the Web,” which was the central arena of their nihilistic campaign, “and decide what to do.”

  • These theories were very bold in their negation, and it is for this reason that they have been called "nihilistic."

  • The government has done much to stamp out the curse of nihilistic propaganda, and many members of the society have fled.

  • I am sure that you can trust him, whether or not there is anything in Poubalov's nihilistic suggestions.

  • Had she not heard how the great body of the nihilistic society was made up of the poor?

  • The most violently nihilistic of doctrines was fanned into an idolatry puerile and meek.