单词 | unindustrious |
释义 | unindustriousadj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > indiligent or remiss nesheOE slackc897 undreigha1350 dissolutea1382 defaultyc1390 defaultive1398 remissivec1487 remissa1500 slakea1538 undiligent1564 unindustrious1599 discinct1604 unofficious1611 inindustriousa1631 indiligent1633 lax1812 remissful1836 1599 S. Daniel Musophilus in Wks. (1602) C iii b So farre beyond the ordinarie course, That other vnindustrious Ages ran. ?1612 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 122 I have been no coward, nor unindustrious in attempting that [i.e. to do good]. 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xiii. 333 We cannot think it so sluggish or unindustrious an agent. 1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. xxxiv. 216 It were..an unindustrious encroaching on the publick property to attain it. 1883 Cent. Mag. 26 805 Hardly an industry, perhaps, or at any rate an unindustrious one. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxi. 192 That intelligent but unindustrious race. Derivatives uninˈdustriously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adverb] > without diligence slowlyeOE slacklyc960 unduly1423 remissly1533 slenderly?1542 dissolutely1553 indiligentlya1631 slack1641 undiligently1645 unindustriously1659 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God xvii. 115 Ev'n the Socinians..are not a little, or un-industriously sollicitous. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1599 |
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