insociableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

insociable (comparative more insociable, superlative most insociable)

1. Not sociable or companionable.

   Synonym: unsociable

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 136, column 1:

     I abhor ſuch phanaticall phantaſms, ſuch inſociable and poynt deuiſe companions, […]

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     this austere insociable life

2. (obsolete) Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:

     Lime and wood are insociable.

派生語

参照

• “insociable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.