单词 | left-out |
释义 | left-outadj.n. A. adj. That has or have been left out; omitted; excluded; (also) relating to those who have been left out. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [adjective] > omitted destutedc1300 unreckoneda1425 omitted1557 uncomprized1597 unincluded1776 unbrought1817 left-out1873 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy Did i. 16 In almost every big family, there is one of those..left-out children. 1909 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 1/5 I believe the left-out millions are more miserable. 1969 New York 13 Oct. 44/3 The left-out list includes: Baziotes, Brooks, [etc.]. 1991 M. Nicholson Martha Jane & Me (1992) xii. 110 I had imagined this left-out old man so grateful for our present that he would have gathered his grandchildren into his arms. 2011 G. O. Perez Methodological Naturalism & Planetary Humanism 42 His needs..are not met and the left out parent and other children may become resentful. B. n. A person or thing that has been left out. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission > that which is leaving-out1584 balk1596 omission1621 left-out1878 1878 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 24 Sept. 5/5 In the fourth inning the ‘left outs’ [sc. players not rehired] were disposed of in short order. 1896 A. M. Douglas Little Girl in Old New York xi. 194 ‘I couldn't ask everybody. The house wouldn't hold them,’ declared Lily... And the ‘left-outs’ declared they wouldn't have gone anyhow. 1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 18 Apr. 8/6 Now I come to Mr. Redfield's left-outs... There must be life in a landscape. 1960 Jrnl. Relig. 40 263/1 We have to find other symbols that can be shared without excluding so obviously the ‘have-nots’ and the ‘left-outs’. 1992 New Republic 6 Apr. 36/2 She has made her subject the odd ones out of Russian society, the sad left-outs or -behinds of even the closest communal living. 2001 A. McGrath & J. F. McGrath Pipe Dreams xxxix. 602 The time it would become sticky would be when the left outs, the other oil companies not included in the deal, began to make noise about restraint of trade. 2005 S. Moger Anc. Amer. World xxi. 52 If you were an Inca girl, which would you rather be, a Mama Kona or a ‘left-out’? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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