单词 | unrealize |
释义 | unrealizev. transitive. To make unreal; to deprive of reality. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > make real [verb (transitive)] > deprive of reality unrealize1755 sublimate1831 derealize1889 disrealize1889 1755 J. Shebbeare Lett. on Eng. Nation II. xlviii. 184 The fashion of examining all things, is unrealizing every thing which is active in the human frame. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters xv. 331 The painted canvass, and the..too palpable acting, served but to unrealize what I saw, and to remind me that I was merely in a theatre. 1927 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 26 120 One of the most characteristic of Klopstock's qualities, as revealed in the Messias, is his habit of unrealizing, or in other words, etherealizing his subject matter. 2007 D. Albright Musicking Shakespeare i. iii. 61 The universe of Romeo and Juliet is, in its way, as heartless and brutal as that of the social code: it seeks to unrealize, to dismiss, most of human life. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > lack of realism > that which creates unrealizer1845 1845 J. B. Mozley in Christian Remembrancer July 195 How little do we feel the past. On flows Time, the great unrealizer, and we are in his stream. unˈrealizing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [adjective] > unreal or not real > that makes unreal unrealizing1797 1797 C. Lloyd in Poems S. T. Coleridge (ed. 2) 156 When Eve's unrealizing gleam Confounds the gaze in visual dream, Why dost thou love to hear the curfew die away? a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1893) II. 204 This postulate of fiction..would have operated with an unrealizing effect upon all that followed. 1986 R. Kearney Dialogues Contemp. Continental Thinkers 69 Sartre defines imagination..as an ‘unrealising’ (néantisant) power of consciousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1755 |
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。