Obsolete
['ɒbsəliːt] or [,ɑbsə'lit]
解釋/意思:
(a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
(a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.
(v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use.
錄入:奥利维尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Antiquated, disused, neglected, unfashionable, old-fashioned, out of date, fallen into desuetude.
杰罗姆錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Antiquated, past, effete, disused, archaic, old-fashioned
ANT:Fashionable, modern, current, customary, operative, extant
鲍里斯校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed a writer's attitude toward 'obsolete ' words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsolescent words would not only be singularly rich in strong and sweet parts of speech; it would add large possessions to the vocabulary of every competent writer who might not happen to be a competent reader.
伯纳黛特校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Yet they seemed to have become obsolete, to be superseded in the world. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The mines were run on an old system, an obsolete idea. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Such pictures were quickly made, and were much in vogue forty years ago, but are now obsolete. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- At present the crude open-pan system, where the brine was poured into open pans and fires were built below the pans, is almost obsolete. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It puzzled you to guess why a garment of handsome materials should be arranged in such scanty folds, and devised after such an obsolete mode. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They were old, obsolete. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Only three years after this prohibitory law was passed it became obsolete because of the improvements which had been made in the production of these articles. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- No wounds, that is obsolete. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
安娜校對