stur・dyの英語

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈstɜːdi/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈstɜrdi/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)di

形容詞

sturdy (comparative sturdier, superlative sturdiest)

1. Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong.

   a sturdy oak tree

   • 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England:

     He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy then dainty.

2. Solid in structure or person.

   It was a sturdy building, able to withstand strong winds and cold weather.

   The dog was sturdy and could work all day without getting tired.

   • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎:

     Diana’s most recent romantic adventure at that time was with the sturdy hunk Will Carling, captain of the England rugby team, whom she had met in 1995 working out at the Chelsea Harbor Club gym.

     adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

3. (obsolete) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 2:

     This must be done, and I would fain see / Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay.

   • 1705 November 8 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Standing Revelation, the Best Means of Conviction. A Sermon Preach’d before Her Majesty, at St. James’s Chapel, on Sunday, October 28. 1705, being the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 339:

     [A] ſturdy, hardned Sinner ſhall advance to the utmoſt pitch of Impiety with leſs difficulty, leſs reluctance of Mind, than perhaps he took the firſt ſteps in Wickedneſs, whilſt his Conſcience was yet Vigilant and Tender.

4. Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality.

   a man of sturdy piety or patriotism

同意語

• hardy

派生語

名詞

sturdy (uncountable)

1. A disease caused by a coenurus infestation in the brain of an animal, especially a sheep or canid; coenurosis.

   Synonyms: gid, (obsolete) turnsick

派生語

• sturdied

参照

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

語源

From Old French estourdi.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsturdiː/

形容詞

sturdy

1. bold, valiant; strong in fight, mighty; bellicose

派生した語

• English: sturdy
• Yola: sturdy

参照

• “sturdī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.