real lifeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

real life (countable and uncountable, plural real lives)

1. Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.

   Near-synonyms: real world, reality

2. (figurative, by extension; sometimes proscribed) Life outside of the Internet.

   Near-synonyms: real world, reality, real reality (intentional pleonasm under certain circumstances)

3. (figurative, by extension) Pressing day-to-day commitments.

   I kept meaning to look for a better-paying job, but real life intervened.

使用する際の注意点

• Use of sense 2 is sometimes discouraged due to its implication that Internet interactions are less "real" than offline ones.

派生語

派生した語

• → German: Reallife
• → Korean: 리얼라이프 (rieollaipeu)

参考

参照

形容詞

real-life (comparative more real-life, superlative most real-life)

1. As happens in real life; not fictional or theoretical; actual as opposed to believed or assumed.

   He was a real-life detective before playing one in the movies.

   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7:

     In addition, as far as we were aware, there were no published data that quantified real-life speech practices in Singapore beyond census reportage, but we had no reason to conclude a priori that the distribution of languages spoken at NIE would match census data.

   • 2023 October 26, Rojoef Manuel, “British Army Trials Situational Awareness Technologies in Urban Warfare Training”, in The Defense Post‎, archived from the original on 17 July 2024:

     “How to hide, survive and use the urban environment as a sanctuary was a challenge but the soldiers adapted to the real-life challenges,” ETG Commander Col. Toby Till explained.