单词 | unridiculous |
释义 | unridiculousadj. Not ridiculous. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > not amusing or entertaining unpleasant1558 sportless1598 unridiculous1646 undistractinga1684 undiverting1695 unentertaining1695 indivertive1700 unamusive1755 unanimating1785 unamusing1794 unexciting1833 sober1838 unstimulating1844 zilch1958 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xvi. 372 If an indifferent and unridiculous object could draw his habituall austerenesse unto a smile. View more context for this quotation 1859 Ebb & Flow II. iii. 55 She, as we think has been hinted in an earlier page of this chronicle, was tall and bony; a stately-important and not altogether unridiculous (a patent for that compound), woman. 1929 R. Jeffers Dear Judas 129 Beyond them the jets of young trees I planted the year of the Versailles peace. But here is the final unridiculous peace. 1984 G. J. Mallinson Comedies of Corneille v. 112 The heroine spurns the pleading but unridiculous Philène in an exchange of rhyming couplets lasting some eighty lines. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Jan. The new unauthorised biography of her husband, Tom Cruise, the Church's most prominent and ebullient proselytiser, by the not entirely unridiculous Andrew Morton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1646 |
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