单词 | playless |
释义 | playlessadj. Without play; lacking plays. ΚΠ a1834 J. Gillman Life of S. T. Coleridge i. 17 [Quoting Coleridge] From eight to fourteen I was a playless day-dreamer, a helluo librorum. 1882 C. S. in Society 14 Oct. 11/1 Is not France in the same deplorable playless condition? 1889 Daily News 28 May 5/2 The playless playgrounds of French schools. 1973 J. S. Bruner Beyond Information Given xvii. 302 The picture of development drawn thus far is much too task-directed, too playless to be characteristic of the first year of life. 2001 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 17 May 45 At lunchtime the smart money had been on a playless day following heavy overnight rain, topped up by a violent mid-morning storm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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