empty-handed 的定义
- having nothing in the hands, as in doing no work: While we were carrying out the luggage, he stood by empty-handed.
- having gained nothing: to return from a quest empty-handed.
- bringing no gift, donation, etc.: They came to the birthday party empty-handed.
empty-handed 近义词
等同于 poor
empty-handed 的近义词 37 个
- destitute
- impoverished
- indigent
- low
- meager
- needy
- penniless
- poverty-stricken
- underprivileged
- bankrupt
- down-and-out
- flat
- insolvent
- scanty
- suffering
- bad off
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind eight ball
- broke
- dirt poor
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- in need
- in want
- moneyless
- necessitous
- pauperized
- penurious
- pinched
- reduced
- stone broke
- strapped
- truly needy
- unprosperous
empty-handed 的反义词 15 个
等同于 necessitous
empty-handed 的近义词 37 个
- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- flat
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need
- in want
- indigent
- insolvent
- low
- meager
- moneyless
- needy
- on one's uppers
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty-stricken
- reduced
- scanty
- stone broke
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
更多empty-handed例句
- The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
- Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.
- No indictments have been handed down against the police officers in question.
- He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism.
- Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.
- "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
- Again the young fellow repeats his fatal "Banco," as he stakes a fresh pile of notes handed to him by the obsequious Jew.
- Lawrence handed the General the mysterious message and Schofield read it with a darkened brow.
- Herein he found an empty stall that was dark enough not to be seen, and still afforded sufficient light to read in.
- Still, if such an envelope should be handed him, he would breathe easier until it was opened.