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δυσχερής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσχερής δυσχερές

Structure: δυσχερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xei/r

Sense

  1. hard to take in hand or manage, annoying, vexatious, discomfortable, difficulties
  2. contradictory, captious
  3. ill tempered, unfriendly, hateful, fastidious
  4. to be annoyed

Examples

  • εἰ γὰρ ἔστι Λοξίασ, Ἑλένησ γαμεῖ με δυσχερέστερον γάμον ὁ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν κλεινὸσ Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:9)
  • "τάχα δ’ οὐδὲν ἔσται δυσχερέστερον. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 18 3:1)
  • "τάχα δ’ οὐδὲν ἔσται δυσχερέστερον. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 18 8:1)
  • μηδεὶσ ὑμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, τῷ διεψεῦσθαι τοῦ Χαριδήμου καὶ νομίζειν εὐεργέτην εἶναι φιλονικῶν δυσχερέστερον τοὺσ περὶ τῶν νόμων λόγουσ ἀκούσῃ μου, μηδ’ ἀποστερήσῃ διὰ τοῦτο μήθ’ ἑαυτὸν τοῦ θέσθαι τὴν ψῆφον εὐόρκον μήτ’ ἐμὲ τοῦ διδάξαι περὶ πάντων ὑμᾶσ ὡσ βούλομαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 23:5)
  • οἱ δὲ αὖ κακῶσ ζῶντεσ τὸν βίον δοκοῦσι δυσχερέστερον φέρειν, τὸν δὲ θάνατον ἥδιον προσδέχεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 56:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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