单词 | unmarvellous |
释义 | unmarvellousunmarvelousadj. Not marvellous; unremarkable. Also (occasionally) as n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > lack of wonder > [adjective] wonderless1601 unformidable1667 unsurprising1671 unstartling1729 unmarvellous1790 matter of course1827 unsensational1854 underwhelming1970 1790 ‘P. Pindar’ Complimentary Epist. J. Bruce 35 Thy soul delights in wonder, pomp, and bustle; Mine in th' unmarvellous and placid scene. 1843 E. C. Gray Hist. Etruria I. vii. 161 It may well strike an unlearned person with wonder, how..the Etruscans alone should be so matter-of-fact and so unmarvellous as to proclaim a date so fixed and recent. 1855 F. D. Maurice Learning & Working iv. 107 This Hope..may..shrink into a very obvious, intelligible, unmarvellous quality. 1946 Sewanee Rev. 54 29 He has practised..the Wordsworthian formula of giving to the unmarvelous the light of wonder. 1977 G. Brotherston Emergence Lat. Amer. Novel x. 138 They write about their particular parts of quite unmarvellous America as witnesses to exploitation, solitude and decay. 2005 K. MacNeil Stornoway Way 146 These people go on living their lives, unfulfillingly filled with..averagely average marriages, unmarvellous children, yappity dogs..—the whole depressing shebang. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1790 |
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