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towardly

/tawrd-lee, tohrd-/US // ˈtɔrd li, ˈtoʊrd- //UK // (ˈtəʊədlɪ) //

朝向,向着,向上,朝着

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : apt to learn; promising.
    • : docile; tractable.
    • : propitious; seasonable.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intimely

Examples

  • But there was one misfortune: thinking to help, she was rather towardly than otherwise to my Dutchman.

  • Cheer up, son-in-law: your children are very towardly, you see they can ask blessing already.

  • Docile and towardly during his seven- or nine-mile stage, he refused to perform more than his allotted task.

  • He was my pupil at Oxford, and a very towardly one; and this knowledge, each of the other, hath continued unto this time.

  • Thou art towardly, she is modest; thou art provident, she is careful.