dearthyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɜː.θi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɝθi/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)θi

形容詞

dearthy (comparative dearthier または more dearthy, superlative dearthiest または most dearthy)

1. Marked by dearth; exhibiting scarcity, paucity, or lack.

   Synonyms: lacking, scarce, wanting

   • 1829, Principles of Natural and Metaphysical Philosophy:

     […] the natural has become the artificial; the noble and desirable, the dearthy and uninteresting; the simple the complex; the intelligible the unintelligible.

   • 1856, Jean Calvin, Henry Cole (translator), Calvin's Calvinism:

     In such a day as this, many a “little sanctuary” or worshipping knot of God's people (Ezek.11.16) may find the loved and deeply experienced Luther calculated, though dead, still to speak to their souls, through this his grand Testimony, more profitably, than many, or perhaps any, ministers they may be able to procure, in this dreary and dearthy last half of the nineteenth century.

   • 1915, The Bystander, volume 47, page 142:

     The dearth of new British cars grows dearthier.

   • 1971, Lawrence Lipsitz, Technology and Education, page 43:

     When the day of the cheap computer arrives, the problem of materials-dearth will only get dearthier because educational technology is still a writer's craft no matter what the medium of presentation is. So, where are the writers?