softwareyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

softwarey (comparative more softwarey, superlative most softwarey)

1. (informal, rare) Relating to or resembling software.
   • 1997, Donald C. O'Shea, quoting an anonymous commenter, “A Survey of Lens Design Courses”, in Proceedings of SPIE, volume 3190: Fifth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics, Bellingham, W.A.: SPIE, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80:

     And (b) My Optical Design course is not appreciated by my non lens design colleages, they say it is too hard-core for the current generation of students (ie non whizzy and softwarey enough), and anyway "Who needs all those optical designers?".

   • 2006 March 15, Travis Hudson, “UPDATE: Playstation 3, PSP News Digested By Kotaku”, in Gizmodo‎, archived from the original on 2020-08-13:

     In the softwarey news, the PSP will be getting GPS, RSS and Macromedia Flash support in the near future.

   • 2006 March 29, Rexx Magnus, “Trouble, woe, dismay.”, in uk.comp.sys.mac‎ (Usenet):

     Hm, yes, does sound like something softwarey then. Mine runs pretty stable even with wonky memory in. Never crashes whilst doing nothing.

   • 2008 July 20, Gustavo Wombat, “Worst Character Bio Concept Ever”, in alt.toys.transformers‎ (Usenet):

     And, the Classics Universe is ostensibly a continuation of G1, which would put it in the same continuity as Beast Wars, which gave us the very softwarey shell programs, converting Maximals to Predacons. And there was the G1 Robo Smasher. All very software. So we might not even have to accept both bios at once.

   • 2016, Denise Welch, If They Could See Me Now, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 63:

     Kelly's husband, Micky Ponsett, did something with software, or in software — something softwarey, anyway.