stillborn

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A baby that is born dead.
    — About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.
形容词 adj.
  1. Dead at birth. not-comparable
    — Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
  2. Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive. broadly,figuratively,not-comparable
    — This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.

词形变化

still-born alternative stillborns plural still-born alternative

词源

词源 1
From English still + born. First attested in 1597.
词源 2
From English still + born. First attested in 1597.
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