单词 | dead-earnest |
释义 | > as lemmasdead-earnest a. Absolute, complete, entire, thorough, downright. Also dead-earnest in adjectival use.[Arising out of various earlier senses.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 20 Till the seed..be come to a full and dead ripenesse. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xii. 119 I had them a dead bargain. 1805 W. Scott Let. 12 Apr. (1932) I. 248 This is a dead secret. 1842 S. Kettell Quozziana 47 I saw, to a dead certainty, that if I should..be caught with my mouth open, I should be expected to say something. 1860 Players 1 154 ‘Done brown, to a dead certainty’ said Buzzen to himself, as he went on eating. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 288/2 The grimmest and most dead-earnest of reading-matter. 1878 Print. Trades Jrnl. No. 25. 15 We know to a dead certainty that [etc.]. 1883 Cent. Mag. 25 372/2 I am in dead earnest. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xviii. 223 Ritchie's good-natured badgering was pretty nearly as aggravating as Brown's dead-earnest nagging. < as lemmas |
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