play fulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 pleiful, equivalent to play +‎ -ful.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpleɪfl̩/
• 韻: -eɪfəl, -eɪfʊl

形容詞

playful (comparative playfuller or more playful, superlative playfullest or most playful)

1. Enjoying play; sportive; prone to playing frequently, in the manner of a child or young pet (viz. puppy or kitten).

   Actually, we are pretty playful in our romantic life.

2. Funny; humorous; jesty; frolicsome; frisky.

   John is a playful fellow.

   A party hat is a playful conical hat people wear at parties.

   • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

     Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.

3. Fun; recreational; unserious.

   A brainteaser is a playful puzzle posed as a test of intelligence.

4. Experimental.

   He was a rather playful artist.

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