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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnjuː.səns/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈnuː.səns/
• 韻: -uːsəns

名詞

nuisance (countable and uncountable, plural nuisances)

1. A minor annoyance or inconvenience.

   The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.

   What a nuisance to have to go now!

   • 2010, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, 2nd edition, The MIT Press, page 407:

     By itself, nondifferentiability at zero is a minor nuisance.

2. A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.

   You can be such a nuisance when you don't get your way.

   • 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian‎:

     With Vardy working tirelessly up front, chasing lost causes and generally making a nuisance of himself, Sevilla were never allowed to settle on a night when the atmosphere was electric inside the King Power Stadium.

3. (law) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.

   a public nuisance

同意語

• (minor annoyance or inconvenience): annoyance, inconvenience, offense
• (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience): bother, obstacle, pest

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “minor annoyance or inconvenience”): enjoyment

派生語

派生した語

• → Welsh: niwsans

参照

• nuisance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia