few / scant / widowed
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widow
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
indecisive / irresolute
habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative
the few are no match for the many / heavily outnumbered / facing impossible odds (idiom)
peerless / second to none (idiom)
(esp. of an unjust cause) to receive little support
to live as a widow
heartless / unfeeling
insipid / bland / indifferent
oligosaccharide
taciturn / reticent
having little knowledge / not well-read
oligarch
oligopoly
oligarchy
do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
harsh and merciless (idiom)
number / amount
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius) / cf 得道多助[] a just cause attracts much support
one who is cut off from others (idiom) / one who has chosen to follow a solitary path / (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
orphans and widows / to be lonely / loneliness
a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
ignorant and inexperienced / ill-informed and narrow-minded
to live as widow / to observe widowhood
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)
multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers
difficult songs find few singers (idiom) / highbrow
honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)
see 沉默寡言[]
(idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence / abstemious / ascetic
meager fare / (fig.) insipid / colorless
(idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength
(ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)
dull and insipid
aloof and as a result friendless (idiom)
aloof / standoffish / unsociable
melancholy / unhappy
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27