单词 | time-warped |
释义 | time-warpedadj. 1. Warped or distorted by the passing of time. Also figurative. Now rare. ΚΠ 1841 Knickerbocker Nov. 430 That savage man had really found a tender spot in her time-warped heart. 1866 J. Askham Descriptive Poems 6 The time-warped oaken floor. 1917 T. Veblen Inq. Nature of Peace vii. 363 These time-warped preconceptions—or superstitions. 1945 R. F. Seymour Some went this Way vii. 175 He lived in a dwarfed, time warped four story brick edifice. 2. Originally Science Fiction. Transported from the past or future by a time warp; (now chiefly in extended use) characterized by a feeling of being from another time; esp. old-fashioned, outdated. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1938 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Mar. 101/2 His feverish eyes seemed to quest whatever time-warped secret lay within. ‘There must be a way to open it,’ he mused. 1950 Rotarian Dec. 18/3 Buildings everywhere seem to belong to another age. Yet in these time-warped surroundings there dwelt a breed of men whose outlook on life was thoroughly modern. 1976 H. Caen One Man's San Francisco 227 The Montgomery Streeters in their time-warped 1950s uniforms. 1994 Q Aug. 16/4 Time-warped punks who accused him of ‘selling out.’ 2003 CondéNast Traveller (Brit. ed.) Jan. 174 Such sightings, and the lack of any contemporary references, lend the landscape a strange, time-warped quality. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1841 |
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