English Dictionary

lank

IPA（発音記号）

/læŋk/

形容詞

廃用 毛髪

Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. / (obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity. / (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)

日本語の意味

痩せていて華奢な、ふんわりせず引き締まった体、シェイプが整っていない様子 / （古語的表現で）乏しい、わずかな量の、けち / （主に髪に対して）まっすぐで平ら、薄く垂れ下がった、しばしば油っぽい状態

Her lank silhouette cut a striking figure against the sunset.

彼女のほっそりとしたシルエットは夕焼けを背景に印象的だった。

意味（1）

Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, About her lank and all o’erteemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;

意味（2）

(obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.

We should think him a very imprudent Husbandman, that to save a little seed at present, would sow so thin, as to spoil his crop. And the same folly ’twill be in us, if by the sparingness and niggardize of our Almes, we make our selves a lank Harvest hereafter, and lose the reward God hath provided for the liberal Almes-giver.

意味（3）

(of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)

The Inhabitants most simple, and treated them with great affection. Of Colour more inclined to white, of Body strong and comly, lank Hair, and long Beards, their Cloaths of very fine Mats […]

意味（4）

(obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.

The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her straight to aged Nereus’ hall; Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head, And gave her to his daughters to imbathe […]

lanker （ comparative ）

lankest （ superlative ）