outwardとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) enPR: out'wərd, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊt.wɚd/
• (Received 発音) enPR: out'wəd, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊt.wəd/
• Hyphenation: out‧ward

形容詞

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. outer; located towards the outside
2. visible, noticeable

   By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,
     If outward habit Iudge the inward man.

3. Tending to the exterior or outside.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismond and Guiscardo”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     The fire will force its outward way.

4. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI:

     an outward war

副詞

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. Towards the outside; away from the centre. [from 10^thc.]

   We are outward bound.

   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     The wrong side may be turned outward.

2. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. [14^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII (in Middle English):

     ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the knyȝtes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren

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同意語

• outwards

派生語

• outwardness