| 单词 | job's comforter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJob's comforter Job's comforter n. a person who aggravates distress under the guise of administering comfort.With reference to Job 16:2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > pessimism > [noun] > one who discourages others discourager1608 disheartener1645 disencourager1716 Job's comforter1738 down-puller1861 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances cloudc1430 palla1450 melancholya1475 downdraughta1681 Job's comforter1738 damper1748 killjoy1776 wet blanket1810 down-drag1814 chill1821 dismals1829 shadow1855 down1856 a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857 wet blanket1857 depressor1868 dampener1887 sorry-go-round1898 wet smack1927 bringdown1935 droopy drawers1939 big chill1943 party pooper1947 misery1951 party poop1951 grinch1966 downer1969 1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 29 Those Preachers are like Jobs Comforters.] 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 201 Lady Smart... I think, your Ladyship looks thinner than when I saw you last. Miss... Your Ladyship is one of Job's Comforters. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) xi. 125 The evil-bodings which a succession of Job's comforters had been pouring into her ears. 1924 J. Galsworthy Old Eng. i. ii, in Plays (1928) 549 Well, good-bye, Sylvanus. You're a Job's comforter. I must be getting home. I don't like it. 2003 R. Harries After Evil iii. 54 The theologians were perhaps right..to say nothing, rather than become the worst kind of Job's comforter. < as lemmas |
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