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形容詞

juiceless (comparative more juiceless, superlative most juiceless)

1. Without juice or sap.
   • 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:

     The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]

   • 1893, George Massee, British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology:

     Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, base fibrillose, scarcely rooting.

2. Dry, dull; lacking vivacity or spirit.
   • 1898, Popular Educator:

     The three R's were abominably taught and the course of work was narrow and juiceless to the extreme.

   • 1966, Robert James McCracken, What is Sin? What is Virtue?:

     A bad-tempered person is a humorless, juiceless person. [...] What a humorless, juiceless, jaundiced pair they must have been!

派生語

• juicelessness