lither

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɪðə/    美 /ˈlɪðɚ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lazy, slothful; listless. UK,archaic,dialectal
    — After the same manner a Monk (I mean those lither, idle, lazie Monks) doth not labour and work, as do the Peasant and Artificer: doth not ward and defend the countrey, as doth the man of warre: cureth not the sick and diseased, as the Physician doth: doth neither preach nor teach, as do the Evangelical Doctors and Schoolmasters: doth not import commodities and things necessary for the Commonwealth, as the Merchant doth: therefore is it, that by and of all men they are hooted at, hated and abhorred.
  2. comparative form of lithe: more lithe comparative,form-of
  3. Flexible, supple; also, agile, lithe. UK,archaic,dialectal
    — Thou antique Death, vvhich laugh'ſt vs here to ſcorn, / Anon from thy inſulting Tyrannie, / Coupled in bonds of perpetuitie, / Tvvo Talbots vvinged through the lither Skie, / In thy deſpight ſhall ſcape Mortalitie.
  4. Bad, evil; false. obsolete
    — The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]
    The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]
  5. In poor physical condition. obsolete
    — [Y]it lyes / Aphipnas ſnorting faſt a ſléepe not mynding for to wake, / Wrapt in a cloke of Bearſkinnes which in Oſſa mount were take. And in his lither hand he hilld a potte of wyne.

词形变化

more lither comparative most lither superlative lidder alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
lidderon litherback litherlurden lither lurden litherly litherness litherous

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lither, lyther (“deceitful; evil; false; treacherous; sinful, wicked; leading to cruelty, injustice, or wickedness, perverted; of a country: filled with wicked people; cruel, fierce; dangerous, deadly; frightening; grievous, painful; harmful, injurious; miserable, paltry, poor, worthless; feeble, sluggish; cowardly”) [and other forms], from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked; base, mean, wretched; corrupt”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“bad; dissolute; neglected; useless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, slack”).
Sense 1.2 (“flexible, supple; agile, lithe”) is influenced by lithe.
Cognates
Dutch lodder (“wanton person”), loddering (“drowsy; trifling; wanton”)
German liederlich (“dissolute”), German lotterig (“slovenly”), lüderlich (“slovenly”)
Old English loþrung (“delusion, rubbish, nonsense”), loddere (“beggar”)
词源 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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