wasteness

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈweɪstnəs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being laid waste; desolation. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
  2. The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Under her rays, the ground over which we passed assumed a more interesting appearance than during the broad day-light, which discovered the extent of its wasteness.
  3. A wilderness. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — She of nought affrayd, / Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought

词形变化

wastenesses plural

词源

From Middle English wastnesse; equivalent to waste + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian woestens (“wildness, savagery, fierceness”), Dutch woestenis (“wasteland”), German Wüstnis (“desert, wasteland”).
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