scruple

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

scruples

1.
Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
2.
(pharmacy) A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
Đồng nghĩa: s.ap.
3.
A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
4.
(broadly, obsolete)(obsolete, by extension) A very small quantity; a particle.
Đồng nghĩa: ace, atom, atomy, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, dusting, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit
5.
(obsolete)A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.

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verb

V_es/s

scruples

V_ing/Gerund

scrupling

V_ed/pp

scrupled

1.
(intransitive)To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
They wouldn't scruple to cheat us if given the opportunity.
2.
(intransitive)To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
3.
(transitive)To regard with suspicion; to question.
4.
(intransitive, obsolete)To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.

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Đồng nghĩa

s.ap.ace atom atomy aughtbisselbit crumbglimpsedab damn dash diddly glint dot spatter drop dusting fleck glimmer

Cùng gốc / liên quan

scruple-shopscrupleless scrupulosity scrupulous scrupulously scrupulousness unscrupulous unscrupulously unscrupulousness

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Old French scrupule, from Latin scrūpulus (literally a small sharp#Adjective) and scrūpulum (one [[twenty-fourth of an ounce), diminutive diminutives of scrūpus (a [[rough#Adjective); perhaps akin to Ancient Greek σκύρος (the [[chipping#Noun), from ξυρόν ([[razor#Noun), from ξύω (to [[scrape#Verb), from Proto-Indo-European *ksew-. escropulo escrupulo.