ablowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbloʊ/

形容詞

ablow (not comparable)

1. (archaic, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.
   • 1867, Augusta Webster, “Lota”, in A Woman Sold and Other Poems, London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 238:

     [...] The flower breaks from its sheath and is ablow / And gives its richest perfumes. [...]

   • 1891, Lizette Woodworth Reese, “Hallowmas” (poem), in A Handful of Lavender,^[1] Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 13:

     You know, the year's not always May —

     Oh, once the lilacs were ablow !

   • 1989, Stephen L. Swynn, Garden Wisdom: Or, from One Generation to Another‎^[2], Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

     [...] against the green, yet, growing in tilled soil, grow stronger and taller than any daffodil can grow in turf : hundreds of them are ablow together, and the very robustness of their splendour [...]

2. (dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.

使用する際の注意点

• Like most adjectives formed from this sense of a-, ablow never serves as an attributive premodifier; one can say “the flowers were ablow”, “ablow, the flowers [...]”, and even “[...] the flowers ablow [...]”, but not *“[...] the ablow flowers”.

アナグラム

• blaow, wobla