lassitudinous
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Characterized by lassitude.
— Let his unhallowed feet never pollute the soft down of a Turkey carpet: ne'er may the sociable sofa receive his lassitudinous limbs, overpowered by the assiduity of cogitation or relaxed by the oppression of ennui: ne'er may his discordant ears be saluted by the sounds of china and porcelain, or his eyes be regaled with hot rolls and muffins.
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Tending to bring about lassitude.
— When Missy sat in the classroom, exhausted with the lassitudinous warmth of spring and with the painful uncertainty of whether she'd be called to translate the Vergil passage she hadn't mastered, visions of that coming glory would rise to brighten weary hours; and the last thing at night, in falling asleep, as the moon stole in tenderly to touch her smiling face, she took them to her dreams.
词源
From Latin lassitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin lassitūdō, from lassus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, lassitude + -ous.
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