英和和英

読み方 むなしい

形容詞相当語句

1

（＝空虚）empty; vacant

用例

• 手をむなしうして帰る
  to return empty-handed

• 宝の山に入って手をむなしうして帰るが如し
  It is returning empty-handed from a mountain of treasures.
• 嚢中むなし
  My purse is empty
  My money is out
  I am out of money.
• 己をむなしうする
  to effect oneself―sink oneself
• かかる書は己をむなしうして読むべきものである
  Such books should be read with entire submission of self―free from all bias.

2

（＝無効、無益、無駄）vain; fruitless; futile; unavailing; ineffectual

むなしく→『むなしく（空しく）』

用例

• 試みはむなしかった
  The attempt was ineffectual―fruitless of results―attended with no results.

• 多年の労もむなしくなった
  Years of labour has come to naught.
• 努力むなしからず
  My labours are crowned with success
  My labours have borne fruit.
• 英語の研究むなしからず
  I have not studied English for nothing.
• 寝て食えば山もむなし
  Idleness will consume a mountain of wealth.
• （敵の）計をむなしくする
  to baffle a design―baulk a design―defeat a design―foil a design―frustrate a design
• 計がむなしくなる
  One is baffled in one's design―baulked in one's design―defeated in one's design―foiled in one's design―frustrated in one's design.

3

（＝亡き）dead; lifeless

用例

• むなしき亡骸
  a lifeless corpse

• むなしき亡骸に取りすがりよよとばかりに泣き伏した
  She abandoned herself to grief over his lifeless remains.