英和和英

語源

From life +‎ changing.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlaɪfˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

形容詞

life-changing (comparative more life-changing, superlative most life-changing)

1. Having a significant effect on the course of one's life.

   My trek across the Amazon was a life-changing event.

   • 2017 May 16, Maurie Backman, “Here's how to become a millionaire on $56,000 a year”, in CNN Money‎, archived from the original on 21 April 2025:

     Those people who eventually become millionaires typically don't get there through sheer luck or by making one life-changing investment.

2. (euphemistic) Causing disability.
   • 2018 July 16, Michèle Pezzagno, Maurizio Tira, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality: Proceedings of the XXIII International Conference on Living and Walking in Cities (LWC 2017), June 15-16, 2017, Brescia, Italy, CRC Press, →ISBN:

     With this understanding, zero preventable deaths and life-changing injuries becomes more than a vision, but instead a realistically ambitious goal.

   • 2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 62:

     His life-changing injuries gave him bleak chances of employment, and he was told that he was unable to have the operation he needed for his injured leg until he was 55 - a 15-year wait.

   • 2020, Lisa Head, Got Inspiration?: Another 365 Daily Doses of Inspiration for You!, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 42:

     Next came his second life-changing accident. In 1993, while competing in the Orange County Triathlon, he was hit by a van while doing the bike portion of the race. This accident resulted in Jim being a quadriplegic.

派生語

• life-changingly
• wife-changing

関連する語

• life change

参照

• “life-changing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “life-changing”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.