单词 | ill-favoured |
释义 | ill-favouredill-favoredadj. a. Having a bad or unpleasing appearance, aspect, or features; ill-looking, uncomely. (Chiefly of persons.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] foulOE uglyc1386 malgraciousa1393 unsightlya1400 loathc1400 ouglec1415 shrewdc1430 unsightyc1440 unwholesome?a1500 evil-favoured1530 ill-favoured1530 uglisome1530 huggeda1533 hard-favoureda1535 evil-liking1535 ill-favorited1579 stigmatical1589 stigmatic1597 sightlessa1616 hard-featured1638 grislya1681 bad-looking1757 unmackly1765 unfavourable1776 dissightly1777 eyesore1798 wavelled1886 spiderly1891 Plain Jane1912 hackit1985 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > having specific appearance huedc1000 beseemeda1250 lookingc1330 well-faringc1330 well-beseenc1374 farranda1400 homely?a1439 ill-favoured1530 seeming1590 looked1597 ill-looking1633 complexioned1639 ill-lookeda1640 leonine1660 plain-looking1744 natural-looking1810 anthropoid1881 thuggish-looking1903 new look1950 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 316/1 Ill favoured, layt. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Nucillus in Panoplie Epist. 237 A deformed and ylfavoured bodie. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xli. 27 The seuen thin and ill fauoured kine. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 169 An ill-favoured Nose. 1787 J. Skinner in Edinb. Mag. Nov. 351/1 Sae proud's I am that ye hae hard O' my attempts to be a Bard, And thinks my muse nae that ill-fawrd. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 80 He had an ill-faur't tawtie face. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vi. 266 Who is this ill-favoured man? b. transferred. Offensive (to some other sense than sight, or to the mind); objectionable. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective] > abhorred or detestable loathlyc900 loathsomec1440 abhorrablea1475 homynable1489 huggeda1533 ill-favoured1562 abhorrible1602 1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 140 I my self..haue felt such an yl fauored vnwholesom sauor. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxvi. 742 The whole plant is of a strong il~fauoured stinking sauour. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. iv. 258 These are vulgar, ill-favoured virtues. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. v. 107 Blackguard loons o' excisemen and gaugers..the ill-fa'ard thieves. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 1 Democracy is an ill-favoured word to English ears. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1530 |
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