单词 | sinewless |
释义 | sinewlessadj. 1. Destitute of sinews. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > [adjective] > without sinewless1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sinewelesse, or hauing no sinewes. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 245 That were to make headless trunks, and sinewless arms. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 25 515 The Farnesian Hercules, so muscular before, so sinewless behind. 1815 Ld. Byron Saul i, in Hebrew Melodies 26 His foot, in bony whiteness, glittered there, Shrunken and sinewless. 2. Lacking vigour; feeble, weak, powerless. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > weak (of immaterial things) thin?c1225 wateryc1230 feeble1393 wash1548 waterish1549 fadea1554 limping1577 dilute1605 lank1607 languid1622 water gruel1630 invalid1635 sinewless1644 exsanguine1647 flaccid1647 diluted1681 wishy-washy1693 tiffany1694 foible1715 rickety1738 faintly1771 unrobust1775 pale1820 peely-wally1832 muscleless1841 weakling1848 weedy?1858 feeblose1882 papery1924 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective] wokec897 unstronga900 unmightyeOE feeblec1175 strengthlessc1175 unwieldc1220 weaka1300 frailc1384 unwieldyc1386 unthendec1425 dissolutec1450 unsure?a1475 feyc1475 simple1477 unfirm1483 unsinewed?1541 wash1548 weakling1557 ladylike1566 silly1567 water weak1592 washya1631 wankle1686 foible1715 unmuscular1725 nerveless1792 wankly1795 shilpit1813 wankya1825 sinewless1829 weedy-looking1835 queachy1859 insubstantiala1861 paper-backed1888 weak-fleshed1967 1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 44 Regiment in the first ages was rather too milde and sinewlesse than too violent and rigorous. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 193 All that ever was said against these Helps of beauty, seems to many wise women..weak and sinnewlesse. 1829 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus xxii. 294 The arms which once slew the Nemæan lion may become sinewless. 1869 J. Ker Serm. (1874) I. 63 A weak sinewless Christianity. 1872 W. C. Russell Perplexity I. viii. 145 Look at those hands; they are white, thin, sinewless. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1552 |
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