单词 | lived-in |
释义 | lived-inadj. Of a room, house, etc.: inhabited, used for living. Also: well used, comfortably informal. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] inhabitate?a1475 peopleda1475 occupied1483 biggitc1485 denizened1557 inhabited1576 dwelt1610 populated1662 unabandoned1745 undeserted1792 empeopled1801 habited1866 lived-in1873 tenanted1886 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy did at School i. 3 The lived-in-look of the best parlor. 1885 R. C. Praed Head Station I. 3 The veranda was more lived in than the sitting-room. 1911 ‘A. Hope’ Mrs. Maxon Protests xv. 162 The studio looked somehow unfamiliar; it had less of the ‘lived in’ look which she associated with it as a pleasant feature. 1950 C. Edwards in M. Cecil Heroines in Love (1974) viii. 203 Your home has that wonderful lived-in feeling. 1970 Daily Tel. 19 May 16/4 It [sc. the play] has a lived-in look and all the acting is robustly expressive. 1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 103/1 Mr. Ritman has a knack for making his sets look lived in. 1995 Entertainm. Weekly 20 Oct. 51/1 Drew's house looks lived in, and when he's sprawled on a couch reading a comic book.., he looks utterly at ease. 2004 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 22/2 I never wanted an immaculate home ever again. So mine's a lived-in home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1873 |
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