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单词 unentertained
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unentertainedadj.

Forms: see un- prefix1 and entertain v. and -ed suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, entertain v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + entertain v. + -ed suffix1. Compare earlier entertained adj. (which is first attested later in the relevant senses).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unenterˈtained.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective]
unentertained1628
unsociable1638
incommunicable1646
incommunicatinga1676
societyless1788
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > not amused or entertained
unentertained1628
unamused1742
undiverted1792
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer ii. 1647 The Mother was constrain'd To let her child depart unentertain'd.
1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. iii. v. 76 These Generals..affording me Particulars, which never left me unentertained.
a1754 H. Fielding Jrnl. Voy. Lisbon (1755) 195 A man must..have been..duller than Cibber is represented in the Dunciad, who could be unentertained with him a little while.
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