keeningとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

keening (not comparable)

1. Sharp, shrill, especially of a sound.

   The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge.

名詞

keening (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 keenings)

1. Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake.
   • 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 85:

     Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.

2. (by extension) An unpleasant wailing sound.

動詞

keening

1. present participle and gerund of keen

アナグラム

• kneeing