anticlimax

anticlimax

意味(日本語)

期待はずれ ◇anti(=against)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

意味(英語)

  • (noun) A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career.
  • (noun) Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events: After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax.
  • (noun) A sudden descent in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential, or an instance of it: "Waggish non-Yale men never seem weary of calling 'for God, for Country and for Yale' the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language” ( Time).

例文

  • I think this is what you might call an anticlimax.

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語源が同じ単語を一緒に覚えよう

declivous

declivous

下に傾いた

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

incline

incline

傾ける ◇in(=into、towards)+L.clinare(=…の方に曲げる)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

【広告】

acclimate

acclimate

(新しい環境に)慣らす ◇climate

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

inclination

inclination

傾き、傾向 ◇in(=into)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

acclimation

acclimation

順応

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

disincline

disincline

気乗り薄になる、…する気をなくさせる ◇dis(=not)+in(=into)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

acclivity

acclivity

上り坂、上り勾配、反対語 declivity

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

disinclination

disinclination

いや気 ◇dis(=not)+in(=into)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

aclinic

aclinic

(物理)傾角のない ◇aclinic line(=磁気赤道、無傾角線)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

recline

recline

もたせかける ◇re(=back)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

【広告】

climax

climax

頂点 ◇Gk.klimax(=slope) = …を上りつめる

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

lean

lean

傾く ◇clineのcがとれた

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

climacteric

climacteric

やく年の、更年期 ◇Gk.klimax(=slopeを上りつめる)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

climate

climate

気候、状況

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

climatic

climatic

気候(上)の、風土的な

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

clinic

clinic

診療所 ◇kline(=ベッド、寝台の)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

clinical

clinical

臨床の

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

declension

declension

傾斜、衰退、名詞などの語形変化 ◇de(=down)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

【広告】

decline

decline

拒否する、傾く ◇de(=down)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

declination

declination

傾き、辞退、下方に傾くこと ◇de(=down)

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)

declivity

declivity

下り坂、下り勾配、acclivity

語源

  • cli(n)- : L.clinare = to bend(曲げる), lean(傾く)