oftとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɔft/, enPR: ôft
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑft/, enPR: ŏft
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒft/, enPR: ŏft
• 韻: -ɒft
• Homophone: offed

副詞

oft (comparative ofter, superlative oftest)

1. (chiefly poetic, dialectal, and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely

   An oft-told tale

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     What I can do, can do no hurt to try:
     Since you ſet up your reſt 'gainſt remedy:
     He that of greateſt works is finiſher,
     Oft does them by the weakeſt miniſter;
     So holy writ in babes hath judgment ſhown,
     When judges have been babes.

   • 1819, George Gordon Byron, John Galt (biography), The Pophecy of Dante, Canto the Fourth, 1857, The Complete Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1, page 403,

     And how is it that they, the sons of fame,
     Whose inspiration seems to them to shine
     From high, they whom the nations oftest name,
     Must pass their days in penury or pain,
     Or step to grandeur through the paths of shame,
     And wear a deeper brand and gaudier chain?

   • 1902, James H. Mulligan, In Kentucky, quoted in 2005, Wade Hall (editor), The Kentucky Anthology, page 203,

     The moonlight falls the softest
     In Kentucky;
     The summer days come oftest
     In Kentucky;

   • 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “4. Revive the original neutrality policy.”, in larrysanger.org‎:

     Now, the English-language Wikipedia does make an attempt to document knowledge of the whole world, not just the English-speaking world. At the same time, it admits in its own oft-cited “essays” that it has a pro-Western “systemic bias”; this is borne out by studies cited in the Wikipedia article about itself.

使用する際の注意点

• In widespread contemporary use in combination.

派生語

関連する語

• often

アナグラム

• FOT, TOF

発音

• IPA: /oft/

副詞

oft (comparative oftor, superlative oftost)

1. often, oft
   • 10th century, The Wanderer‎:

     Oft him ānhaga · āre gebīdeð,
     Metudes miltse, · þēah þe hē mōdċeariġ

     A loner oft waits a grace for himself,
     Creator's mercy, even if he is sorrowful

   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 5‎:

     Oft iċ wīġ sēo, frēcne feohtan.

     I oft see a war, a dangerous battle.

反意語

• seldan

派生した語

• Middle English: ofte, oft
  • English: oft, often
  • Scots: aft, aften