irefulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

ireful (comparative more ireful, superlative most ireful)

1. Deeply angered but not outwardly displaying it; full of ire; angry; wroth.
2. (of clouds, the sky, etc) Threatening to storm, or storming; louring or stormy.
   • 1845, Charles Hood, Gonzalvo, Or, The Fall of Grenada, page 30:

     ... ireful clouds collect in stern array, / And bursting thunders speak the mighty fray;

   • 1921, Paul Green, The Drama Magazine ..., page 91:

     ... ireful crimson sky, as he gropes his broken way home after the trial.

   • 2012 August 15, John Herbert Roper, Sr., The Magnificent Mays: A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Univ of South Carolina Press, →ISBN:

     ... ireful clouds, as foreboding a day for starting a mission as Bennie and Sadie Mays could recall—and the weather became a nagging portent that lingered in their minds during a warm reception filled with hope and promises.

   • 2013 February 20, H.O. Charles, Blazed Union (Volume 4 of The Fireblade Array), H. O. Charles:

     ... ireful clouds seemed to sink heavily toward the town. It wasn't supposed to rain here, and yet the sand beneath his feet was as soaked as any shoreline.

派生語

• irefully
• irefulness

関連する語

• ire
• irous

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ireful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ireful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “IREFUL”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Fleuri, furile