macilent

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lean; thin; emaciated
    — It ought not to be doubted but that there will yet be a time of so copious an effusion of the Holy Spirit, as will invigorate it afresh and make it spring up, out of its macilent withered state, into its primitive liveliness and beauty.

词形变化

more macilent comparative most macilent superlative

词源

From Latin macilentus (“lean, thin, meagre”), from Latin maciēs (“leanness; poverty”), from Latin macer (“meager; poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with English emaciate and meagre.
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