English Dictionary

lither

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɪðə/

形容詞

イギリス英語 古語 方言 廃用

Lazy, slothful; listless. / Flexible, supple; also, agile, lithe. / Bad, evil; false. / In poor physical condition.

日本語の意味

怠惰な、無気力な / 柔軟でしなやか、身軽な / 悪い、邪悪な、不正な / 体調が悪い、元気がない

The lither clerk often postponed tasks until the last minute, frustrating his coworkers.

その怠惰な事務員はしばしば仕事をぎりぎりまで先延ばしにして、同僚たちを苛立たせた。

意味（1）

Lazy, slothful; listless.

After the same manner a Monk (I mean those lither, idle, lazie Monks) doth not labour and work, as do the Peasant and Artificer: doth not ward and defend the countrey, as doth the man of warre: cureth not the sick and diseased, as the Physician doth: doth neither preach nor teach, as do the Evangelical Doctors and Schoolmasters: doth not import commodities and things necessary for the Commonwealth, as the Merchant doth: therefore is it, that by and of all men they are hooted at, hated and abhorred.

意味（2）

Flexible, supple; also, agile, lithe.

Thou antique Death, vvhich laugh'ſt vs here to ſcorn, / Anon from thy inſulting Tyrannie, / Coupled in bonds of perpetuitie, / Tvvo Talbots vvinged through the lither Skie, / In thy deſpight ſhall ſcape Mortalitie. Used here to mean “easily passed through; flexible”.

意味（3）

Bad, evil; false.

The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […] The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]

意味（4）

In poor physical condition.

[Y]it lyes / Aphipnas ſnorting faſt a ſléepe not mynding for to wake, / Wrapt in a cloke of Bearſkinnes which in Oſſa mount were take. And in his lither hand he hilld a potte of wyne.

more lither （ comparative ）

most lither （ superlative ）