English-Thai Dictionary

vicissitude

N การเปลี่ยนแปลง  การสับเปลี่ยน  mutability uncertainty kan-pian-plang

 

vicissitudes

N การเปลี่ยนแปลง ที่ ไม่ คาดคิด  mutability uncertainty kan-pian-plang-ti-mai-kad-kid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VICISSITUDE

n.[L. vicissitudo; from vicis, a turn. ] 1. Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as the vicissitudes of day and night, and of winter and summer; the vicissitudes of the seasons.
2. Change; revolution; as in human affairs. We are exposed to continual vicissitudes of fortune.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VICISSITUDE

Vi *cis "si *tude, n. Etym: [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See Vicarious. ]

 

1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. God made two great lights. .. To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. Milton.

 

2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. Macaulay.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

vicissitude

vi cis si tude |vəˈsisəˌt (y )o͞od vəˈsɪsəˌt (j )ud | ▶noun (usu. vicissitudes ) a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant: her husband's sharp vicissitudes of fortune. • literary alternation between opposite or contrasting things: the vicissitude of the seasons. DERIVATIVES vi cis si tu di nous |-ˌsisəˈt (y )o͞odn -əs, -ˈt (y )o͞odnəs |adjective ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘alternation ’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns, ’ from vic- ‘turn, change. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

vicissitude

vicissitude |vɪˈsɪsɪtjuːd, vʌɪ -| ▶noun 1 (usu. vicissitudes ) a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant: her husband's sharp vicissitudes of fortune. 2 [ mass noun ] literary alternation between opposite or contrasting things: the vicissitude of the seasons. DERIVATIVES vicissitudinous |-ˈtjuːdɪnəs |adjective ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘alternation ’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns ’, from vic- ‘turn, change ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

vicissitude

vicissitude noun the vicissitude of our love: change, alteration, shift, reversal, twist, turn, downturn, variation; inconstancy, instability, uncertainty, chanciness, unpredictability, fickleness, variability, changeability, fluctuation, vacillation; ups and downs.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

vicissitude

vicissitude noun he maintains his sunny disposition despite life's vicissitudes: change, alteration, alternation, transformation, metamorphosis, transmutation, mutation, modification, transition, development, shift, switch, turn; reversal, reverse, downturn; inconstancy, instability, uncertainty, unpredictability, chanciness, fickleness, variability, changeability, fluctuation, vacillation; ups and downs.

 

French Dictionary

vicissitudes

vicissitudes n. f. pl. nom féminin pluriel littéraire Succession de situations différentes, heureuses ou malheureuses. : Les vicissitudes de l ’existence. Note Orthographique vi c i ss itudes.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

vicissitude

vi cis si tude /vəsɪ́sət j ùːd |vaɪ -/名詞 C ｟かたく ｠〖通例 ～s 〗(人生などの )移り変わり, 浮き沈み, 栄枯盛衰 ; 変化 .