оголтелый

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Russian

Etymology

From оголте́ть (ogoltétʹ, to go crazy) +‎ -лый (-lyj).

Pronunciation

Adjective

оголте́лый (ogoltélyj) (adverb оголте́ло, abstract noun оголте́лость)

  1. unbridled, rampant, frenzied, wild, extreme
    оголте́лый национали́змogoltélyj nacionalízmunbridled nationalism
    • 1936, Андрей Платонов , chapter 9, in Счастливая Москва; English translation from Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, transl., Happy Moscow, London: Harvill Press, 2001:
      Грома́дные облака́, освещённые лишь со́бственным сла́бым све́том, прилега́ли бли́зко к пове́рхности городски́х крыш и уноси́лись в тьму поле́й, в ско́шенные простра́нства пусто́й, оголте́лой земли́.
      Gromádnyje oblaká, osveščónnyje lišʹ sóbstvennym slábym svétom, prilegáli blízko k povérxnosti gorodskíx kryš i unosílisʹ v tʹmu poléj, v skóšennyje prostránstva pustój, ogoltéloj zemlí.
      Huge clouds, lit only by their own weak light, were lying close to the surface of the city roofs and being carried away into the dark of the fields, towards the mown spaces of an empty, frenzied earth.

Usage notes

  • Short forms оголте́л, оголте́ла, оголте́ло, оголте́лы theoretically exist, but are usually avoided due to their appearing similar to past-tense forms.

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