lassitudinousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

lassitudinous (comparative more lassitudinous, superlative most lassitudinous)

1. Characterized by lassitude.
   • 1814, J.E.H., “The adversaria, or, evening recreations, no. X.”, in The Port Folio‎, volume 3, number 1, page 277:

     Let his unhallowed feet never pollute the soft down of a Turkey carpet: ne'er may the sociable sofa receive his lassitudinous limbs, overpowered by the assiduity of cogitation or relaxed by the oppression of ennui: ne'er may his discordant ears be saluted by the sounds of china and porcelain, or his eyes be regaled with hot rolls and muffins.

   • 1972, Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné, Hutchinson:

     And he had lived—still lives—thanks to sorcery alone, for he is naturally lassitudinous and, without his drugs, would barely be able to raise his hand from his side through most of a normal day.

2. Tending to bring about lassitude.
   • 1920, Dana Gatlin, Missy‎, Doubleday:

     When Missy sat in the classroom, exhausted with the lassitudinous warmth of spring and with the painful uncertainty of whether she'd be called to translate the Vergil passage she hadn't mastered, visions of that coming glory would rise to brighten weary hours; and the last thing at night, in falling asleep, as the moon stole in tenderly to touch her smiling face, she took them to her dreams.