figurative. Gentle, tender-hearted, sentimental; not tough and cynical; naive, impractical. Cf. hard-boiled, adj. 2.
| 单词 | θ93561 |
| 释义 | the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent > and impractical or trusting (4) soft-boiled1859 figurative. Gentle, tender-hearted, sentimental; not tough and cynical; naive, impractical. Cf. hard-boiled, adj. 2. starry-eyed1878 Of a person: naively enthusiastic or idealistic; romantic. Cf. to have stars in one's eyes at star, n.1 phrases 7. dewy-eyed1938 parasynthetic, as dewy-eyed (also figurative = sense 5b above.), dewy-feathered, dewy-pinioned, dewy-swarded, etc. Old English had déawig-feðere =… dewy1958 figurative. Innocent and trusting; naïve. |
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