单词 | musicless |
释义 | musiclessadj. rare before 19th cent. Tuneless, unmusical; lacking musical ability or receptiveness; without music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > [adjective] > having musical quality > not musicless1615 unmusicala1616 immusical1626 noteless1721 anti-musical1824 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > skilfully > not timeless1603 tuneless1821 musicless1854 society > leisure > the arts > music > [adjective] > without music tuneless1726 musicless1873 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 172 Their musicklesse instruments are fannes of brasse, hung about with rings. 1854 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) I. 168 I, poor musicless brute, don't know the Hypo-Lydian from Cambridge New. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 173 In many musicless waltzings..we have learned to fit each other's step exactly. 1925 Amer. Mercury July 373/2 The ‘Medea’ that I know isn't helped any by producing it on the musicless merry-go-round known as the Drehbühne. ?1961 C. Bukowski Let. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 27 I think a man should be forced to write in a roomful of skulls..the sockets musicless staring into the wet ether-sogged, love-sogged,hate-sogged brain. 1991 Atlantic Mar. 34/1 Hubbard Street has acquired the bare-bones, musicless, thornily existential The Fugue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1615 |
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