单词 | all-sided |
释义 | all-sidedadj. 1. Of a person: having all sides or aspects of one's character or intellect well or fully developed; displaying accomplishment and skill in all types of pursuit, or great breadth of vision or learning. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > having all-round ability various1621 versatile1786 many-sided1823 omnicompetent1827 all-sided1833 polytropic1838 all round1867 1833 S. Austin tr. J. D. Falk Characteristics of Goethe I. 106 Nothing could be so delightful and amusing as to hear the all-sided man suddenly become a thorough-going, one-sided partisan—an inveterate, narrow bigot. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 275 One of those rapid, intelligent, all-sided men. 1883 Unitarian Rev. May 428 He is simply a universal, all-sided man. And, as he was broad by nature, he became pre-eminently so by education. 1894 Congr. of Women 1893 II. 795 We must stop mentioning names, for the gifted, all-sided women of our land are legion. 1957 New Scientist 24 Jan. 12/1 The all-sided man of the renaissance, that we must encourage as our model. 1997 M. H. Davidson Columbus then & Now 474 Largely due to the humanists, Renaissance Italy provided a home for the all-sided man. 2. That concerns or involves all sides of something, esp. a question, matter, argument, etc. ΚΠ 1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 13 Aug. 157/1 A more arduous task he [sc. a prince] imposed upon himself,—to strengthen and elevate his powers by liberal, all-sided culture. 1853 A. Henfrey tr. A. Braun Refl. on Phenomenon of Rejuvenescence in Nature in A. Henfrey Bot. & Physiol. Mem. 238 The cell..displays sometimes an all-sided growth, sometimes a one-sided, sometimes a two-sided. 1871 S. P. Andrews Primary Synopsis Universol. xii. 178 The all-sided and complete reconciliation of all possible sectarian divisions in all spheres. 1964 A. W. Gouldner in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 202 The discussion there cannot be completely free and all-sided. 2005 R. K. Pruthi Theory Public Admin. viii. 109 Attaching top priority to development, it strives for change, growth, progress and all-sided development. Derivatives ˈˌall-ˈˌsidedness adj. [after German Allseitigkeit (1691, originally with spatial reference; rare before 1809)] the quality or state of being all-sided. ΚΠ 1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 30 July 142/1 In this the infinite variety of his pursuits and studies lay that ‘all-sidedness’ (if we may be pardoned for adopting such a word from the German), for which he was so remarkable. 1869 J. Tyndall Notes on Light (1873) iii. 116 The two-sidedness of that [sc. polarized] light, in contrast to the all-sidedness of ordinary light. 1881 W. James in Unitarian Rev. 16 407 May you still be the champions of mental completeness and all-sidedness. 1933 Times 2 June 15/6 We are sick of the weak-kneed, allsidedness of people who see everything and do nothing. 2004 New Yorker 13 Sept. 95/3 He evolved..a matchless all-sidedness and negative capability, which could probe two ideas at once and never quite come down on the ‘side’ of either. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1833 |
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