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語源

From 中期英語 nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) +‎ body (“one, person, individual”).

発音

• (stressed form, 英国発音) IPA: /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/, /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/
• (stressed form, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/, /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/
  • (unstressed form, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/

代名詞

nobody

1. Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

   I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

   As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.

   Nobody phoned, did they?

使用する際の注意点

• Nobody has a lower degree of formality than no one, but is still standard and is unremarkable in more formal contexts.
• See more at no one

同意語

• no one, small fry, small potatoes

反意語

• anybody, anyone
• everybody, everyone
• somebody, someone

派生語

関連する語

名詞

nobody (plural nobodies)

1. (informal) A person dismissed as unimportant.

   Synonyms: zero, nonentity, loser; see also Thesaurus:worthless person

   • 1835, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVII, in Villette‎:

     “‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?”

2. Something that has no body or an especially small one.

派生語

• nobody crab, no-body crab (Pycnogonida spp.)

参照

• “nobody”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.