dark-hearted

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Malevolent; cold and cruel.
    — And, at a feast, one of the darkest-hearted fellows, one of the very few who didn’t come to Church, got up and proposed they should throw off the Worship, as it was only bringing sickness and death among them, after all they had given up for it.
  2. Unenlightened; ignorant of holy teachings. archaic
    — His dying command makes in incumbent on his followers to offer the “unspeakable gift” alike at the door of cottage and palace, forecastle and cabin. Mountain top and vale— plain and ocean are to be made to rejoice in the “glad tidings of great joy.” How the dark-hearted of earth need its light.
  3. Despondent.
    — I was not prosperous enough to become intoxicated, nor poor enough to grow moody and dark-hearted, nor sufficiently at ease in my circumstances to sit idle and invent sin.
  4. Bleak.
    — What is the latest word from the dark-hearted hills?
  5. Having dark heartwood.
    — The wood is pale yellowish, often dark-hearted, close, dense, liable to split.
  6. Having a dark center.
    — I seemed to look down on a parterre of mixed hyacinths, variegated tulips, and dark-hearted poppies, as I beheld them.

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more dark-hearted comparative darker-hearted comparative most dark-hearted superlative darkest-hearted superlative darkhearted alternative dark hearted alternative

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