单词 | arriéré |
释义 | † arriéréadj. Obsolete. Behind the times, backward, or outdated; strongly conservative or reactionary. Cf. arrière-guard n. 2. Now rare.Not fully naturalized in English. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [adjective] retrograde?1518 hidebound1603 tradition-bound1660 tradition-loving1660 tradition-ridden1660 mumpsimus1680 stickfast1803 arriéré1814 stick-in-the-mud1832 reactive1836 reactionary1847 reactionist1848 misoneistic1891 red-necked1896 Blimpian1935 blimpish1938 redneck1938 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc. old-fashioned1596 musty1603 mildewed1605 fusty1609 wormy1611 frumpy1746 fossila1770 arriéré1814 has-been1819 Rip Van Winkleish1829 frumpish1847 archaistic1850 fogey1852 fogeyish1852 old fogeyish1853 rusty-fusty1864 mossbacked1876 dead-handed1928 Victorian1934 unhep1939 unhip1939 dinosaurian1943 square1946 dinosaur-like1947 dinosauric1977 analogue1993 1814 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 23 Dec. The base and arriere law, which used to carry men into the field. 1843 J. S. Mill Let. 28 Feb. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 572 I think him wrong, &, as he always is, arrière, for the Edinburgh review & the Holland-house set who preside over it are the last refuge of the ideas & tastes of a generation ago. 1885 H. Sidgwick Let. 15 Sept. in Memoir (1906) 424 The Statisticians are weak or arriéré in economic theory. 1925 in Further Lett. from Man of No Importance (1932) 170 An arrièré Conservative, he eschewed mechanical transport and in the country would charter a one-horse fly rather than take a taxi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1814 |
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