calm

/kɑːm/

意味: 落ち着き/静けさ

例文: Chair-kun radiates calm during glitter emergencies.
    チェア君はキラキラ騒動中でも落ち着きを放つ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: calm down(落ち着く), stay calm(冷静でいる), calm voice(落ち着いた声)

定義: 静かで落ち着いた状態や気持ちを指します。心が穏やかで、緊張や不安がない状態です。人や場所、状況が騒がしくなく、平和であることも表します。

calmは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

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Definitions(定義)

Noun: steadiness of mind under stress
Noun: wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
Verb: make calm or still
Verb: make steady
Verb: become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
Verb: cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
Adjective: not agitated; without losing self-possession
Adjective: (of weather) free from storm or wind

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Noun: he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity
Verb: quiet the dragons of worry and fear
Verb: steady yourself
Verb: After the fight both men need to cool off.
Verb: It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.
Verb: The patient must be sedated before the operation
Adjective: spoke in a calm voice
Adjective: remained calm throughout the uproar
Adjective: he remained serene in the midst of turbulence
Adjective: a serene expression on her face
Adjective: she became more tranquil
Adjective: tranquil life in the country
Adjective: calm seas

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): becalm, calm, calm air, calm down, calmness, chill out, composure, cool it, cool off, equanimity, lull, quiet, quieten, sedate, serene, settle down, simmer down, steady, still, tranquil, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize, unagitated

Antonyms(反意語): agitate, discomposure, stimulate, stormy

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): affect, change state, comfort, disposition, stabilize, wind

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acidify, agreeableness, airstream, alkalize, aloneness, animalism, attack, be born, become, better, blood, bloodiness, boil, break, breeze, burn, calcify, calm, calm air, carbonize, carnify, catalyze, chinook, chondrify, citrate, close, clot, cloud over, coke, come to, composure, conceive, concentrate, cool, cramp, cross-fertilize, crosswind, curdle, denitrify, die, disagreeableness, discomposure, disengage, dissolve, doldrums, draft, dress, east wind, emaciate, emancipate, empty, emulsify, epicurism, equilibrate, erupt, esprit de corps, esterify, etherify, explode, fall, fill, fluctuate, fohn, freeze, frenchify, friendliness, gain, gale, get into, get worse, good nature, gourmandism, gust, harmattan, headwind, heart, heat, high wind, homogenize, ill nature, integrate, intoxicate, ionize, jaundice, katabatic wind, khamsin, liquefy, monsoon, moodiness, nervousness, north wind, northwest wind, open, optimism, ossify, overgrow, perfectionism, permissiveness, pessimism, precipitate, prevailing wind, react, reduce, register, relax, santa ana, secularize, sedate, settle, simoom, solvate, sorb, sour, south wind, southeaster, southwester, squall, steady, still, stimulate, tailwind, tense, thermal, thicken, thin, thrive, thrombose, ulcerate, unfriendliness, unpermissiveness, unsociability, unwillingness, wake up, west wind, willingness, worsen, zonk out

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): aplomb, compose, hypnotize, lull, pacify, reassure, repose

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: calm, calmness, compose, equanimous, lull, quiet, sedation, sedative, still, tranquilizer, tranquilliser, tranquillizer

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

comparative-er

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys

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

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