emptyhandedness
构词拆解
-ness
后缀
- -ness
- Appended in general, often informally, stylistically, or jocularly, for reification of an attribute. · Appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of being (the adjective)", "the quality of being (the adjective)", or "the measure of being (the adjective)".
词源说明
From emptyhanded + -ness.
释义
名词noun
- 1The state of having nothing in one's hands.
- 2Poverty or lack of possessions and resources.
- 3Lack of anything to offer
- 4The lack of something one sought to acquire.
- 5Failure to accomplish a task or mission.
- 6Lack of a weapon; the state of being unarmed.