matronly

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. In the capacity of a matron; serving as a housekeeper or head nurse.
    — The door opened, but it was to admit a middle-aged matronly lady with good-humour and domestic capability proclaimed by every detail of her smiling face and easy manner.
  2. Exuding the authority, wisdom, power, and intelligence of an experienced woman.
    — c. 1977, Janeane Garofalo, a skit the matronly upper arms girls know about life and love and losing
  3. Having the appearance of a mature woman, often of larger physical stature and somewhat unkempt or dowdy.
    — 27 April 2009, LA Times https://web.archive.org/web/20090427074230/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/04/susan-boyle-gets-a-makeover-is-she-going-hollywood-already.html Gone is her matronly gray frizzy hair and those bushy brows, frumpy frock and old lady pearls.
副词 adv.
  1. In the manner of a matron.
    — The mother dressed matronly, in a bonnet and in black, always sat between her two big daughters, firm, directing, and repressed.

词形变化

more matronly comparative most matronly superlative more matronly comparative most matronly superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
matronliness unmatronly

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English matron
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English matronly
From matron + -ly.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English matron
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English matronly
From matron + -ly.
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