| 单词 | saturnine |
| 释义 | saturnine (once / 7828 pages) adj Medieval alchemists ascribed to the planet Saturn a gloomy and slow character. When people are called saturnine, it means they are like the planet––gloomy, mean, scowling. Not exactly the life of the party. Saturnine is a word you don't hear often nowadays, though you probably know people with saturnine dispositions. The ultimate saturnine character in literature is Heathcliff––and for clarification's sake, that would be the brooding, bitter, obsessed hero of "Wuthering Heights," not the lovably pudgy cat of comic-strip fame. WORD FAMILYsaturnine: saturninely USAGE EXAMPLESCattelan himself, tall and saturnine in slim jeans and a salmon-colored shirt, was on hand for last-minute activities on the day before the press opening. The New Yorker(Sep 14, 2016) He had a dark complexion and a small, wise, saturnine face with mournful pouches under both eyes. Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961) Slowly, though, it is Skarsgård who takes charge, positioning Dima—ruthless, jovial, and doomed—at the heart of this saturnine tale. The New Yorker(Jun 27, 2016) 1adj bitter or scornful "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde Syn sarcastic expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds 2adj showing a brooding ill humor "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven Syn dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。