单词 | unwittily |
释义 | unwittilyadv.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adverb] unwiselyc897 dizzilyc1175 folly?c1225 canglichec1230 mazedlya1250 follilyc1330 unskilfully1340 unwittily1362 lewdlyc1380 nicelya1387 fondlya1450 nicea1450 foolishlyc1450 foliously1481 ineptly1523 peevishly?1529 simply1535 insipiently1536 senselessly1561 fonly1579 sillilyc1598 perperously1657 insipidly1699 daftly1724 silly1731 stupid?1757 dawkinly1763 fool-like1800 unsagely1801 spoonily1861 assishly1863 ill-advisedly1879 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 101 Unwittily, ywys, wrouht hastou ofte. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3802 Þofe we hafe vnwittyly wastede oure selfene. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) vi. 525 Till thaim & nother ellis-quhar Had ey, & wrocht unwittily [1487 St. John's Cambr. vnvittandly]. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Inargute, vnwittily, without subtilitee. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxxv Where they condempne the baptisme.., it is vnwittely [L. inscienter] done of them. 2. In a manner displaying lack of wit or facetious humour. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in unwitty or inhumorous manner unwittily1661 inhumorously1898 unfunnily1963 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 69 This Man was wanton and merry (unwittily and ungracefully merry) with our Sufferings. 1884 Imperial Dict. IV. 524/2. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adv.1362 |
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