| 单词 | howling wilderness |
| 释义 | > as lemmashowling wilderness 2. Characterized by, or filled with, howling, as of wild beasts or of the wind; dreary. In the Biblical howling wilderness, and derived phrases, the word tends to become merely intensive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective] unbearingc825 deafc897 westyOE wastumlessc975 wilderna1050 drya1340 gelda1350 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 ungreenc1400 infecundc1420 farrow1494 fruitlessa1513 unfruitful1531 sterile1552 hungry1577 penurious1594 unfertile1596 infertile1598 howling1611 ungenitureda1616 arid1656 infecundous1661 ungendering1706 yeld1721 unproductive1725 infructuose1727 ungenerative1733 fallow1791 nihili-parturient1812 dowf1824 wastec1825 non-productive1830 unreproductive1836 infructuous1860 unvintaged1869 increative1877 ablastemic1881 submarginal1895 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] > howl, wail, or whine > characterized by howling1611 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wildernesse. View more context for this quotation 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 222 The very Sight of those howling Desarts deterr me. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 2 His Blasts obey, and quit the howling Hill. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 Going regularly aloft to bed..in a howling garret remote from the lodgers. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 79 Fit the bleak and howling place For gardens of a finer race. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 225 Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveller that does the howling. < as lemmas |
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