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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

  • ἔτι τούτων μᾶλλον αἱ βλαβεραὶ ἀλλοιώσεισ καὶ κινήσεισ, καὶ μάλιστα αἱ λυπηραὶ βλάβαι. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 213:3)

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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