exasperateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation, also) IPA: /ɪɡˈzɑːspəɹeɪt/
• 韻: -æspəɹeɪt
• ハイフネーション: ex‧as‧per‧ate

動詞

exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)

1. (transitive) To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.

   Synonyms: aggravate, rile; see also Thesaurus:annoy

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

     And this report
     Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
     Prepares for some attempt of war.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.

   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.

   • 1987 January 5, “Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino”, in Time:

     [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.

   • 2007 June 4, “Loyal Mail”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 7 October 2010:

     News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.

派生語

形容詞

exasperate (comparative more exasperate, superlative most exasperate) (obsolete)

1. (as a participle) Exasperated.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], page 143:

     And this report
     Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee
     Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.

2. exasperated; embittered.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Thersites. Do I curse thee?
     Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no.
     Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]

   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Fourth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 177:

     Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
     Sets spinning […]

関連する語

参考

• exacerbate

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “exasperate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

動詞

exasperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exasperō