VILEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /vaɪ(ə)l/
• 韻: -aɪl
• Homophone: vial

形容詞

vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)

1. Morally low; base; despicable.

   vile accusation

   vile man

   • 1842 February 22, Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society”, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley, editor, The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln‎:

     Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.

   • 1870, William Minto, “Daniel Defoe”, in Acme Library of Standard Biography:

     The parties stooped to vile and unbecoming meannesses; infinite briberies, forgeries, perjuries, and all manners of debauchings of the principles and manners of the electors were attempted.

   • 2020 January 1, “Cultivating Myself Well and Helping People to Understand the Truth about Falun Dafa”, in Minghui‎:

     People crave human decency, warmth, and sincerity even in the vilest of circumstances…

2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

   I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.

   vile taste

   vile smell

   vile smile

   vile substance

   vile weather

名詞

vile (uncountable)

1. That which is vile; vileness.
   • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Forging Bonds of Hate and ——?”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, pages 26–27:

     “I had seen those two work before—in the smoking-room the day prior to their attack on you, if I recollect it correctly, and so, knowing their methods, I am convinced that their enmity is a sufficient guarantee of the integrity of its object. Men such as they must cleave only to the vile, hating all that is noblest and best.”

同意語

• (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble, inappropriate

派生語

• vilify

参考

アナグラム

• Levi, Viel, evil, live, veil, vlei