Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λυπηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυπηρός λυπηρή λυπηρόν

Structure: λυπηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lupe/w

Sense

  1. painful, distressing
  2. causing sorrow
  3. causing pain, troublesome, vexatious, offensive
  4. painfully, so as to cause pain, painful

Examples

  • ΟΡΓΗ ἀπόλλυσι καὶ φρονίμουσ, ἀπόκρισισ δὲ ὑποπίπτουσα ἀποστρέφει θυμόν, λόγοσ δὲ λυπηρὸσ ἐγείρει ὀργάσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 15:1)
  • ΕΙΠΟΝ γὰρ ἐν ἑαυτοῖσ λογισάμενοι οὐκ ὀρθῶσ. ὀλίγοσ ἐστὶ καὶ λυπηρὸσ ὁ βίοσ ἡμῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἴασισ ἐν τελευτῇ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ οὐκ ἐγνώσθη ὁ ἀναλύσασ ἐξ ᾅδου. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 2:1)
  • ἐκτραφεὶσ δ’ ἐκεῖ πρῶτον μέν, ὡσ χρὴ τοὺσ μετοικοῦντασ ξένουσ, λυπηρὸσ οὐκ ἦν οὐδ’ ἐπίφθονοσ πόλει οὐδ’ ἐξεριστὴσ τῶν λόγων, ὅθεν βαρὺσ μάλιστ’ ἂν εἰή δημότησ τε καὶ ξένοσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:4)
  • λυπηρὸσ ἴσθ’ ὢν κἀποχώρησον δόμων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:3)
  • τίσ σὴν ταράσσει καρδίαν λυπηρὸσ ὤν; (Euripides, episode 4:35)

Synonyms

  1. painful

  2. causing sorrow

  3. causing pain

  4. painfully

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

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