English Dictionary

leprous

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɛpɹəs/

形容詞

古語 比喩的用法 歴史的 廃用

Relating to or infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy. / Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.

日本語の意味

ハンセン病に関連する / ハンセン病に感染している状態にある / ハンセン病やその症状に似た

Volunteers prepared warm blankets for the leprous villagers who had been ostracized and left to fend for themselves.

ボランティアは、ハンセン病に罹患して共同体から疎外され、自力で生きていかざるを得ない村人たちのために温かい毛布を用意した。

意味（1）

Relating to or infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.

And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

意味（2）

Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.

意味（3）

Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.

And why, except that it had moved everywhere with them and they regarded it as one of their possessions, had they kept the hatrack, its glass now leprous, most of its hooks broken, its woodwork ugly with painting-over?

意味（4）

(figuratively, archaic) Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.

My whole Life is so leprous, it infects All my Repentance: I wou’d buy your Pardon Though at the highest Set, even with my Life:

意味（5）

(alchemy, historical) Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.

意味（6）

(botany, archaic) Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”)

意味（7）

(obsolete) Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.

Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona, / In a viall, and through the porches of my eares / Did powre the leaprous diſtilment, whoſe effect / Hold ſuch an enmitie with blood of man, […]

more leprous （ comparative ）

most leprous （ superlative ）