unmeanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From un- (“not”) +‎ mean.

形容詞

unmean (comparative more unmean, superlative most unmean)

1. (rare) Not mean (all senses).
   • 1999, Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette, Martin Scorsese: Interviews (page 188)

     The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870.

   • 2008, Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton, Macmillan →ISBN, page 247

     But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve.

   • 2014, Martin Bowman, Battlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack (page 8)

     They are so unmean, so just and so kind.

   • 2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction (page 65)

     So the tightrope these unmean men must walk drew taut.

同意語

• (various): kind, agreeable, generous

語源 2

From un- (“reverse, opposite”) +‎ mean.

動詞

unmean (三人称単数 現在形 unmeans, 現在分詞 unmeaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 unmeant)

1. (rare) To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated.
   • 2007, Ralph Yarrow, Franc Chamberlain, Sacred Theatre, page 114:

     The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre.

   • 2011, Maria Damon, Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, page 83:

     ... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms

   • 2015, CD Reiss, Shuttergirl:

     I'd meant everything I ever said to her, and I didn't know how to unmean it.

同意語

• take back, walk back, withcall

参考

• unring

アナグラム

• Neuman, unname