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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

  • τοῦτο οὖν ἦν τὸ ποιῆσαν ἐμὲ τὴν ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν, ἵνα μὴ δοκῶ κατηγορεῖν τινων μηδὲ διαβάλλειν τὴν πόλιν μηδ̓ ὅλωσ λυπηρότεροσ ὦ τῶν ἐνθάδε μηδενί. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 19:1)
  • δοκεῖ δὲ τοῖσ μὲν εὖ πράττουσι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὁ μὲν βίοσ ἀμείνων, ὁ δὲ θάνατοσ διὰ τοῦτο λυπηρότεροσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 55:1)
  • ὅθεν ὁ μὲν ἡδίων ἡμῖν τῶν βίων, ὁ δὲ λυπηρότεροσ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ συμβαίνει κατὰ φύσιν γίγνεσθαι, καὶ τόν γε βουλόμενον ἡδέωσ ζῆν οὐκέτι παρείκει ἑκόντα γε ἀκολάστωσ ζῆν, ἀλλ’ ἤδη δῆλον ὡσ, εἰ τὸ νῦν λεγόμενον ὀρθόν, πᾶσ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ ἄκων ἐστὶν ἀκόλαστοσ· (Plato, Laws, book 5 52:1)

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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