其他形式

词源

1597年首次可考，源自 +‎

形容词

(無比較級)

1. 死产的

   近義詞： (过时，罕用)

   反義詞： (古旧)

   • 1768, Horace Walpole, "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III,"

     Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.

   • 1978, Holy Bible (New International Version), Job 3:16,

     Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

2. (比喻義，引申义) 流产的，不成功的，未遂的

   近義詞：

   • 1859, Charles Reade, Love Me Little, Love Me Long, ch. 11,

     This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.

   • 1915, William MacLeod Raine, The Highgrader, ch. 18,

     His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.

名词

(複數)

1. 死产儿
   • 2016, Alok Sharma, A Practical Guide to Third Trimester of Pregnancy & Puerperium

     About 35% of stillborns are discovered to have major structural anomalies by chromosomal studies and autopsy findings.