| 释义 |
echoless, a.|ˈɛkəʊlɪs|
[f. echo + -less.]
That has no echo; chiefly poet. or rhet. in the sense ‘silent, noiseless’.
1728Monthly Review XXVI. 503 An aerial telegraph..by means of which the voyagers [in balloons] can talk with each other in the echoless space. 1816Byron Prometh. 14 The suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but in its loneliness..nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 440 No unfit haunting place for things of echoless footstep. 1868A. I. Menken Infelicia 3 That far off, echoless promise.
b. fig. That gives no echo; unresponsive.
1868Browning Ring & Bk. x. 553 Father and mother stunned, and echoless To the blow. |