pontificate
verb🔊/pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪt/
🔊/pɑːnˈtɪfɪkeɪt/
[intransitive] (disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pontificate | 🔊/pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪt/ 🔊/pɑːnˈtɪfɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it pontificates | 🔊/pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪts/ 🔊/pɑːnˈtɪfɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple pontificated | 🔊/pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ 🔊/pɑːnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle pontificated | 🔊/pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ 🔊/pɑːnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form pontificating | 🔊/pɒnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/pɑːnˈtɪfɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- pontificate (about/on something)
to give your opinions about something in a way that shows that you think you are right 自以为是地谈论；目空一切地议论 Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun): from Latin pontificatus, from pontifex, from pons, pont- ‘bridge’ + -fex from facere ‘make’. The verb dates from the early 19th cent.