zephyrous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Like a zephyr.
    — Hither no winds, but zephyrous breaths repair, Soft, as the sighs of love sick virgins are!
  2. Like a zephyr.; Soft, gentle, refreshing.
    — 1800, Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, The Stepmother, London: R.H. Evans, Act V, Scene 1, p. 75, The last night’s tempest was a zephyrous gale, To the rough storm that tears his frame to atoms: …
  3. Breezy; blown by a breeze.
    — It was March now, the mild March of an early spring. There came new days, zephyrous and sweet.
  4. Light, fine, soft. usually
    — 1895, “Feminine Affairs” in To-Day (magazine edited by Jerome K. Jerome), Volume 9, Number 111, 21 December, 1895, p. 200, That there will be flying machines before very long seems more than likely, and what deliciously zephyrous and diaphanous costumes will not the milliners devise for airy recreations in the near future!

词形变化

more zephyrous comparative most zephyrous superlative

词汇关系

近义词
zephyrean zephyrian

词源

From zephyr + -ous.
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