devilishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: dĕvʹəl, IPA: /ˈdɛvəlɪʃ/, /ˈdɛvɪlɪʃ/

形容詞

devilish (comparative more devilish, superlative most devilish)

1. Resembling a devil.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi, signature [B7], recto:

     Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes, / And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe, / In loue of honor and defence of right / Be arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe, / Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.

   • 2019 February 5, Torii MacAdams, “The New Generation of LA Rap Is Changing Everything”, in VICE‎:

     […] currently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]

2. Wicked, evil.
   • 1532, Thomas More, “The Confutacion of [William] Tyndale’s Aunswere […]. The Maner and Order of Our Eleccion.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, page 587, columns 1–2:

     [S]ome turne agayne by grace frõ their deadly hereſies into yͤ life of faith, ⁊ ſome be ſo ſore nowſeled in the falſe hereſies, ⁊ in their obſtinate frowardneſſe take ſuch a deueliſhe delight, yͭ finally thei die therin as did Baifield, Bainã, ⁊ Tewkeſbury.

   • 1880, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight: In the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, page 383:

     [...] devilish cruelty - for devilish cruelty it was, as three or four drivers armed with whips, lingered up and down the slowly-staggering file of Indians, and avenged every moment's lagging, even every stumble, by a blow of the cruel [whips].

   • 1991, The Economist:

     [...] the devilish destructiveness of modern conventional weapons and the need for future Saddam-busters to control their spread. (Think of the damage that a Saddam with longer-range missiles, cleverer warheads and better defences [could do].

3. Roguish or mischievous.

   a devilish grin

   • 2009 12, Dennis L. Siluk Ed.D., A Leaf and a Rose (A Paris-Munich Romance-Novelette): vol. III, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 41:

     " […] " remarked Bernadette, as I looked at her, and she gave me that lovely devilish smile that said : I like liberty, and not necessarily accountability. And evidently, […]

4. (informal) Extreme, excessive.

   A devilish effort yielded a devilish success.

   I had a devilish time moving the wardrobe downstairs.

同意語

• (resembling a devil): atrocious, demoniac, deuced, diabolic, evil, fiendish, ghoulish, malicious, mischievous, nefarious, ogreish, reprobate, unhallowed, wicked
• (characteristic of a devil): demonic, diabolic, diabolical, hellish, infernal, satanic, satanical
• (extreme): excessive, extreme.

派生語

副詞

devilish (comparative more devilish, superlative most devilish)

1. (informal, dated) Devilishly; very; exceedingly.

   It was devilish hot outside today.