no moreとは

意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

no more (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Not any more, no further.
2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (idiomatic) Dead.

   She held him until he was no more.

   • 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):

     This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

副詞

no more (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) No longer, not any more

   I will pay no more today.

   He will bother you no more.

   • 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More

     Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,

     No more will he wander Lochaber again.

   • 1817, Lord Byron

     So, we'll go no more a roving

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

     If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,

     I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!

   • 1973. Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born

     I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.

   • 1972, Alice Cooper, School's Out

     [There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.

派生語

• no more Mr. Nice Guy

関連する語

• any more

参考

• no less

間投詞

no more

1. Stop it! Don't continue!
   • 2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams

     The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.

名詞

no more (複数形 no mores)

1. (idiomatic, rare) Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent
   • 2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen

     So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!

   • 2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse:

     We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.