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单词 umbrous
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umbrousadj.

/ˈʌmbrəs/
Forms: Also Middle English vmbreuse.
Etymology: < French ombreux, †umbreux, or Latin umbrōsus: compare umbrose adj.
1. Lying in the shade; shady, shadowed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade
shadowy1398
shadowed1400
umbrous1480
shadowish1530
shadeful1563
shadowous1585
shady1589
umbrageous1622
shaded1635
swaly1820
adumbral1855
umbraged1890
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses x. i The Kynge and the quene comanded that Erudice shold be called forth, which was in the umbrous valeye.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. i. 130 The Sonne..maketh the day to growe byfore hym, and on that other parte the erthe is vmbreuse & derke by hynde hym.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Xx2v It growes in..margins of fields, that are not umbrous.
1821 T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 227 A meadow..umbrous with orange and cedar trees.
2. figurative. (See quot. 1483) Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling
winter-coldOE
coldc1175
cheald1340
umbrous1483
key-colda1535
frosty1548
frostbitten1564
icy1567
wintry1579
cold-hearteda1616
unwarmeda1625
dry1637
cool1641
frigidal1651
frigid1658
thieveless1725
cool-hearted1748
wintry1748
chill1751
cold as charity1795
freezing1813
ice-cold1815
chilly1841
impersonal1846
pincé1858
ice-cool1891
touch-me-not-ish1895
marmorean1902
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 108 b/1 He was umbrouse or shadewous, that is to saye he was colde and refrigerat fro all concupyscence of the flesshe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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