单词 | weirdless |
释义 | weirdlessadj. Scottish. Destined to ill fortune, ill-fated, unlucky; hence unbusinesslike, incapable, worthless. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > doomed to misfortune fatal1509 ill-starreda1616 foredoomed1700 ill-fated1713 weirdless1821 ill-bestarreda1834 snake-bit1942 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > lacking resourcefulness unshifty1570 shiftless1584 boss1599 helpless1620 unshiftable1622 self-helpless1634 foisonless1721 feckless1773 resourceless1787 weirdless1821 hopeless1854 fibreless1864 1821 Joseph the Book-man 99 Ye weirdless, naughty, spendthrift man. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Weird Weirdless,..2. Destitute of any capacity to manage worldly affairs. a1827 Mary Hamilton in G. R. Kinloch Anc. Sc. Ballads (1827) 254 And wae be to that weirdless wicht. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin x. 93 What could she think..but that I behooved to be some wild, weirdless, ne'er-do-weel? Derivatives ˈweirdlessness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > lack of resourcefulness fecklessness1637 shiftlessness1682 helplessness1731 weirdlessness1825 self-helplessness1853 unshiftiness1870 sleevelessness1882 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Weird Weirdlessness, wasteful mismanagement. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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