flippantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈflɪ.pənt/

形容詞

flippant (comparative more flippant, superlative most flippant)

1. Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:

     a sort of flippant, vain discourse

   • 1998, Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch

     The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.

   • 2000, Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000

     In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.

   • 2004, Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, page 147

     Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.

2. (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
   • November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason

     It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech.

3. (chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:cheeky

反意語

• serious

派生語

• flippancy

参考

• irreverent
• pert
• facetious
• frivolous

Further reading

• flippant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• flippant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911