senescent

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
    — And now, as the night was senescent / ⁠And star-dials pointed to morn— / ⁠As the star-dials hinted of morn— / At the end of our path a liquescent / ⁠And nebulous lustre was born
  2. Characteristic of old age.
  3. That ceases to divide.
    — When such lines and forms of organic development prevail, the individual, as the cell of the body, becomes soon senescent, drifting inevitably into age, decay, and death.

词形变化

more senescent comparative most senescent superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
antisenescent hypersenescent immunosenescent nonsenescent presenescent prosenescent unsenescent
相关词
senate senator senescence senile senior seniority

词源

From Latin senescens, present participle of senescere (“to grow old”), from senere (“to be old”), from senex (“old”).
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