deludeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 deluden, borrowed from Latin dēlūdō (“mock, deceive”), from de + lūdō (“to make sport of, to mock”). See ludicrous.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˈluːd/, /dɪˈljuːd/
• (米国発音) IPA: /dɪˈluːd/, /dəˈluːd/
• 韻: -uːd

動詞

delude (third-person singular simple present deludes, present participle deluding, simple past and past participle deluded)

1. (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
   • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams.

   • 1775, Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America:

     To delude the nation by an airy phantom.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
   • c. 1680, John Dryden, Dido to Aeneas:

     It deludes thy search.

同意語

• (to deceive): deceive, mislead

派生語

関連する語

• delusion
• delusional
• deluded
• allude
• elude
• illude

アナグラム

• dueled, eluded