appetentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈæpətənt/

形容詞

appetent (comparative more appetent, superlative most appetent)

1. (archaic) Eagerly desirous; greedy.
   • 1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:

     knowing the Earle to be thirsty and Appetent after Glory and Renownie

   • 1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter V, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part II (The Song of the Lark), page 193:

     During this first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had to find one's way. She felt no interest in the general briskness and zest of the crowds. The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.

派生語

• appetently
• inappetent

関連する語

• appetite
• appetition

参照

• “appetent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.