derisibleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin *dērīsibilis (compare Italian derisibile (“that may be derided”)) + English -ible (a variant of -able (suffix meaning ‘able または fit to be done’ forming adjectives)). *Dērīsibilis is derived from dērīsus + -ibilis (a variant of -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity または worth of being acted upon));^[1] while dērīsus is the perfect passive participle of dērīdeō (“to laugh at, make fun of, mock, deride”), from dē- (intensifying prefix) + rīdeō (“to laugh; to laugh at, mock, ridicule”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”), in the sense of turning the mouth to smile).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹɪzɪb(ə)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dəˈɹɪzəbəl/
• ハイフネーション: de‧ris‧i‧ble

形容詞

derisible (comparative more derisible, superlative most derisible)

1. Deserving derision (“treatment with disdain または contempt”).

   Synonyms: contemptible, deridable, derisive; see also Thesaurus:despicable

   Antonyms: respectable, underisive

   • 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson; Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, “Story of the Destroying Angel”, in More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 45:

     I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior.

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