pique 的 3 个定义
piqued, piqu·ing.
- to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride: She was greatly piqued when they refused her invitation.
- to wound.
- to excite: Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.
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piqued, piqu·ing.
- to arouse pique in someone: an action that piqued when it was meant to soothe.
- a feeling of irritation or resentment, as from a wound to pride or self-esteem: to be in a pique.
- Obsolete. a state of irritated feeling between persons.
pique 近义词
anger, irritation
offend, provoke
pique 的近义词 47 个
- annoy
- arouse
- displease
- excite
- gall
- galvanize
- ignite
- incense
- irk
- irritate
- kindle
- offend
- rile
- stimulate
- whet
- absorb
- affront
- bother
- bug
- exasperate
- get
- goad
- goose
- grab
- miff
- mortify
- motivate
- move
- nettle
- peeve
- prick
- quicken
- rouse
- spur
- sting
- stir
- vex
- wound
- egg on
- fire up
- get a rise out of
- get under skin
- give a hard time
- give the business
- make waves
- put out
- work up
pique 的反义词 22 个
更多pique例句
- Their pique could only have been exacerbated by the fact that the law required public disclosure.
- He had wanted the romance of being what he once was, something I was denying him in my pique.
- How much might such spirited competitions pique the interest of stateside TV audiences?
- He is a mild-mannered and generous guy, not the kind of person prone to fits of pique or rage.
- This loud display of pique lasted about a week before Fallin quietly reversed herself.
- But like the committee hearing, it was just a nasty show of pique.
- Except for a bit of petulance directed toward Stephanopoulos and a bit of pique directed at Huntsman, Romney maintained his cool.
- The Daily News, in referring to this, suggests that "peacock temper" was a misprint for "pique, or temper."
- I fear my manner showed my pique a trifle, for I did not see her anywhere about when I left after breakfast.
- Ellen Morris accepted an invitation to Petersburg, ere the angry pique, aroused by Lynn's reproaches, passed off.
- Many of us, male and female, treated as Susan imagined herself treated, have taken another lover out of pique.
- Kilmeny had been brought too near the grim realities to hold any petty pique.