way-outとは意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

way-out (not comparable)

1. unusual, unconventional or strange
2. (US, slang) out of the mainstream of society

   Hector is one, way-out guy.

   Jenny is a way-out kinda gal.

関連する語

• far-out

アナグラム

• outway

名詞

way out (複数形 ways out)

1. A means of exit.

   The way out is along this corridor.

2. An act or instance of departure.

   Lock the door on your way out.

3. (figuratively) A solution to a problem; an escape.

   This is a real mess. I need a way out.

   • 1999, Robert L. Solso, Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century (page 199)

     The plight of the elderly plagued with mental decline, such as Alzheimer's dementia, is particularly poignant because at the point where the decline in mental capacity may make life no longer worth living to them, they are incapable of choosing suicide as a way out.

反意語

• (exit): way in