ungeniusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

un- +‎ genius

名詞

ungenius (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ungeniuses)

1. (countable) A person who is not a genius.
   • 1987, ‎Stefano Micossi, ‎Julie A. E. Curtis, Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (page 34)

     For a heady moment I wanted to fling the notebook down and say to them: you write about geniuses and ungeniuses if you like, but don't teach me how to do it, I won't be able to do it anyway. I'd be better acting instead of you.

   • 1995, Benjamin Taylor, Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity (page 90)

     Serenus Zeitblom, serene flower of the age, good-hearted, long-winded, the ungenius par excellence whose ungenius is his license to speak.

2. (uncountable) Lack of genius.
   • 1995, Benjamin Taylor, Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity (page 90)

     Serenus Zeitblom, serene flower of the age, good-hearted, long-winded, the ungenius par excellence whose ungenius is his license to speak.