saturnic

形容词 adj.
/səˈtɜːnɪk/    /səˈtɝnɪk/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. containing lead or suffering from lead poisoning (saturnia)
    — As regards alcohol, eight of the men, including one subject of gout and one of lead-poisoning, confined their potations to two pints of beer or less daily. Of one more, a painter, gouty and saturnic, the amount was not ascertained.
  2. saturnine; tending to a gloomy, melancholy, or bitter disposition
    — Don Fernan presented that union of fiery passion and saturnic manners not unusual among Spaniards.
  3. of or relating to the planet Saturn
    — Under these conditions the Moon could only collide with satellites in orbits external to the Moon itself since it is well-known that any sizable satellite inside the Roche limit would rapidly disintegrate into some kind of saturnic ring.
  4. Saturnalian: riotously merry; dissolute
    — A remarkable example of such saturnic mime is provided by Plato’s Symposium. Its beginning is saturnalia, its ending—komos; its whole setting is not everyday-realistic but saturnic, Bacchic, and the roots of “feast” philosophy (wine and the theme of eros) lie in Bacchism-saturnism.

词形变化

more saturnic comparative most saturnic superlative

词源

From Saturn + -ic.
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