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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

  • 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

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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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