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λυπηρός?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: lypēros

Principal Part: λυπηρός λυπηρή λυπηρόν

Structure: λυπηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: λυπέω

Sense

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

Examples

  • τί δ οὐ καλῶς τῶνδ ἢ τί λυπηρῶς ἔχει· (Euripides, episode 3:13)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἐπιθυμία τοῦ ἡδέος, ᾗ ἀκολουθεῖ χαίρων, ὥστε ὁ ἀκρατὴς μᾶλλον ἑκὼν καὶ οὐ βίᾳ, ὅτι οὐ λυπηρῶς. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 135:1)
  • λυπηρῶς δ ἔχει, εἰ τοῖς ἐμαυτῆς τὸν βίον σῴζω κακοῖς. (Sophocles, episode 8:4)
  • λυπηρῶς δὲ μὴ πέμπω σε μᾶλλον, τοῦτ ἀνιῶμαι πάλαι. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 1:24)
  • οὔτε γὰρ εἰ ταχὺ γηράσκει, εὔγηρως, οὔτ εἰ μόγις μὲν λυπηρῶς δέ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. painful

  2. causing sorrow

  3. causing pain

  4. painfully

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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