单词 | uneconomical |
释义 | uneconomicaladj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] consumptive1748 spendthrift1790 uneconomical1840 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > wasteful wastefula1616 consumptive1652 unfrugala1662 infrugal1684 uneconomical1840 uneconomic1843 ineconomic1852 1840 J. F. W. Herschel Ess. (1857) 109 The abandonment of ancient methods as comparatively inefficient and uneconomical. Derivatives unecoˈnomically adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adverb] > wastefully wastefully1513 wastingly1552 profligately1676 uneconomically1881 1881 W. Thomson in Nature 16 June 137/1 It would work..not so uneconomically as to be..fatal to the proposed use. unecoˈnomicalness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > waste waste1297 spillingc1380 consuminga1538 profusion1545 lavishing1574 consumption1613 lavishment1630 frittering1795 uneconomicalness1817 wastry1830 wastage1885 ineconomy1897 haemorrhaging1967 1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 304 As to uneconomicalness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1817 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。