单词 | idyllic |
释义 | idyllicadj. a. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of an idyll. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > pastoral poem > [adjective] > idyllic idyllian1716 idyllic1861 idyllical1885 1861 Sat. Rev. 7 Sept. 248 The Amante and Madonna of Ciullo d'Alcamo..to us appears to display a genuine and wonderful idyllic power. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. ii. 30 Much might be..said on the topick of Idyllick and Pastoral Poetry. b. Forming a suitable theme for an idyll; full of natural simple charm or picturesqueness. Also used trivially. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adjective] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense > specific grand1668 idyllian1716 picturesque1756 idyllic1856 idyllical1885 1856 H. B. Stowe Dred II. 68 How perfectly cool and inviting you look! Really, quite idyllic! 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ xlii At Nazareth, with all its idyllic memories of His boyhood, and His mother's home. 1897 E. Dowden Hist. Fr. Lit. iv. iv. 326 An Utopian visionary, an idyllic dreamer. 1899 Daily News 20 June 3/3 He was afraid that idyllic prospect never had any substantial foundation. Derivatives iˈdyllical adj. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adjective] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense > specific grand1668 idyllian1716 picturesque1756 idyllic1856 idyllical1885 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > pastoral poem > [adjective] > idyllic idyllian1716 idyllic1861 idyllical1885 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 117 A process..of idyllical simplicity. iˈdyllically adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adverb] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense > specific idyllically1874 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. viii. 164 The female heads are singularly noble and idyllically graceful. 1876 Saintsbury in Academy 30 Dec. 622 They spend the winter idyllically. iˈdyllicism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [noun] > specific grandeur1632 pastorality1875 idyllicism1941 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > pastoral poem > [noun] > idyll > character or nature of arcadianism1823 idyllism1873 idyllicism1941 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats v. 86 This snob idyllicism. 1964 Economist 25 Jan. 294/1 There is little idyllicism left. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1856 |
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