ease

/iːz/

意味: 安心・容易さ

例文: Philo brings ease to plants just by existing.
　　  フィロは存在するだけで植物に安らぎを与える。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: ease of use(使いやすさ), ease the pain(痛みを和らげる), put at ease(安心させる)

定義: 物事を簡単にしたり、心配や不安を減らすこと。リラックスした状態や、困難が少ない状況を指す。

easeは約50,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
Noun: a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
Noun: the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
Noun: freedom from constraint or embarrassment
Noun: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
Verb: move gently or carefully
Verb: lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
Verb: make easier
Verb: lessen the intensity of or calm

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She tried to ease the tension in the room.(彼女は部屋の緊張を和らげようとした。)
The new software will ease your workload significantly.(新しいソフトは仕事量を大幅に軽減する。)
He spoke with ease during the presentation.(彼はプレゼンで楽に話した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he rose through the ranks with apparent ease
Noun: they put it into containers for ease of transportation
Noun: the very easiness of the deed held her back
Noun: a life of luxury and ease
Noun: he had all the material comforts of this world
Noun: he enjoyed his relief from responsibility
Noun: getting it off his conscience gave him some ease
Noun: I am never at ease with strangers
Noun: took his repose by the swimming pool
Verb: He eased himself into the chair
Verb: ease the pain in your legs
Verb: you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge
Verb: The news eased my conscience
Verb: still the fears

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, easiness, facilitate, informality, relaxation, relief, relieve, repose, rest, simpleness, simplicity, still

Antonyms(反意語): difficulty

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): affluence, comfort, help, inactivity, naturalness, quality, relieve, travel

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ability, accompany, accuracy, advance, air, amorality, angle, appearance, arability, ascend, asset, attraction, automobile, avail, back, bad, bang, beetle, benefact, betake oneself, billow, bootstrap, bounce, brachycephaly, breeze, calm, caravan, care, career, carry, certainty, changeableness, changelessness, characteristic, circle, circuit, circulate, clearness, combustibility, come, comfort, complexity, comprehensibility, constructiveness, convenience, correctness, counterfactuality, coziness, crawl, credibility, cruise, delay, derail, descend, destructiveness, difference, difficulty, directivity, distinction, divinity, divisibility, do, dolichocephaly, domesticity, drag, draw, drive, ease, elegance, ethnicity, excellence, expedite, expressiveness, extraordinariness, extremeness, facilitate, factuality, fall, ferry, fibrosity, fidelity, finiteness, float, flock, fly, follow, foreignness, forge, fruitfulness, fruitlessness, generality, get around, ghost, glide, go around, good, hardness, help out, hiss, holiness, hot stuff, humaneness, humanness, humor, hurtle, ideality, idleness, illogicality, immateriality, immobility, immorality, impenetrability, impressiveness, inability, inaccuracy, incomprehensibility, incorrectness, incredibility, inelegance, infidelity, infiniteness, inhumaneness, insolubility, inutility, irregularity, island hop, lance, lawfulness, logicality, lurch, materiality, memorability, mobility, morality, naivete, nativeness, naturalization, naturalness, nature, navigability, neediness, negativity, occidentalism, opacity, ordinariness, orientalism, originality, outflank, pace, painfulness, pan, parental quality, particularity, pass, pass over, pathos, pause, penetrability, piquancy, play, pleasantness, plow, popularity, positivity, power, powerlessness, prance, precede, precess, probability, proceed, propagate, protectiveness, publicity, pursue, push, quantifiability, raft, regularity, relativity, relief, repair, responsiveness, rest, retreat, retrograde, return, ride, rise, roll, romanticism, round, run, rush, salability, sameness, satisfactoriness, scramble, seek, serve, shuttle, sift, simplicity, sincerity, ski, slice into, slither, snootiness, snowshoe, soapiness, solace, solubility, soothe, sophistication, speed, spinnability, spontaneity, steamer, step, still, stray, stuff, stuffiness, subjectivism, subserve, succor, sufficiency, suitability, swap, swash, swim, swing, taxi, tone, trail, tram, transfer, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, trundle, turn, ulteriority, ultimate, unaffectedness, uncertainty, unholiness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unoriginality, unpleasantness, unpopularity, unpretentiousness, unresponsiveness, unsatisfactoriness, unsuitability, unwholesomeness, urbanity, utility, virtu, wait, walk, waxiness, weave, wend, wheel, whine, whish, whisk, whistle, wholesomeness, withdraw, woodiness, worth, worthlessness, zigzag, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abreact, bedrest, effortlessness, lap of luxury, laziness, leisure, lie-in, quiescence, reprieve

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: allayer, comfort, comforter, ease, easement, easing, easy, facilitation, facilitative, facilitator, informal, relax, reliever, repose, rest, simple, still

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun, uncountable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive