Unwelcomeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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形容詞

unwelcome (comparative unwelcomer, superlative unwelcomest)

1. Not welcome.

   Antonym: welcome

   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     This ſtraunge vnwelcome and vnhappie newes,
     Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniust,
     That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land,
     Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde,
     Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]

   • 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE‎, archived from the original on 7 November 2023:

     Gynecomastia is estimated to affect anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of males at some stage of their lives. And "gyne" or "gyno", as it's commonly known, is not only an unwelcome (and ironic) side-effect of anabolic-androgenic - that is, muscle-building and masculinising - steroids: it can also be caused by other hormonal disruptors such as alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, obesity, puberty (usually temporarily) and old age. But [Tom] Powell says his gyno was "99 percent" likely due to steroids.

   • 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:

     For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.

動詞

unwelcome (third-person singular simple present unwelcomes, present participle unwelcoming, simple past and past participle unwelcomed)

1. (transitive, rare) To treat as unwelcome.
   • 1992, Selections from National Press, page 92:

     Devils and angels stood side by side on one platform to unwelcome him.

   • 2013, Amber Lim, Different Worlds, page 303:

     'You could've said so if you're unwelcoming us. We could've just leave!' I ranted and walked back into the room, away from the balcony.