clear

/klɪr/

意味: 明確な、はっきりした、取り除く

例文: Kai cleared space on his desk—for snacks.
　　  カイが机の上をスナックのために片付けた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: clear sky(晴れた空), clear instructions(明確な指示), clear water(澄んだ水)

定義: 物事がはっきりしていることや、透明で見えやすいことを指します。例えば、空が雲一つなく晴れている状態や、水が汚れなく透き通っている状態を表します。また、説明や指示が分かりやすく、誤解の余地がないことも意味します。

clearは約6,000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: the state of being free of suspicion
Noun: a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
Verb: rid of obstructions
Verb: make a way or path by removing objects
Verb: become clear
Verb: grant authorization or clearance for
Verb: remove
Verb: go unchallenged; be approved
Verb: be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
Verb: go away or disappear
Verb: pass by, over, or under without making contact
Verb: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Verb: free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
Verb: clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
Verb: yield as a net profit
Verb: make as a net profit
Verb: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
Verb: sell
Verb: pass an inspection or receive authorization
Verb: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
Verb: settle, as of a debt
Verb: make clear, bright, light, or translucent
Verb: rid of instructions or data
Verb: remove (people) from a building
Verb: remove the occupants of
Verb: free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
Adjective: readily apparent to the mind
Adjective: free from confusion or doubt
Adjective: affording free passage or view
Adjective: allowing light to pass through
Adjective: free from contact or proximity or connection
Adjective: characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
Adjective: (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
Adjective: (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
Adjective: clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
Adjective: accurately stated or described
Adjective: free from clouds or mist or haze
Adjective: free of restrictions or qualifications
Adjective: free from flaw or blemish or impurity
Adjective: clear of charges or deductions
Adjective: easily deciphered
Adjective: freed from any question of guilt
Adjective: characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
Adverb: completely
Adverb: in an easily perceptible manner

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The sky is clear after the storm.(嵐の後、空は澄んでいる。)
Please make your instructions clear.(指示をはっきりさせてください。)
She gave a clear answer to the question.(彼女は質問に明確な答えをした。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: investigation showed that he was in the clear
Noun: finally broke out of the forest into the open
Verb: Clear your desk
Verb: Clear a path through the dense forest
Verb: The sky cleared after the storm
Verb: Clear the manuscript for publication
Verb: The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
Verb: clear the leaves from the lawn
Verb: Clear snow from the road
Verb: The bill cleared the House
Verb: The check will clear within 2 business days
Verb: The fog cleared in the afternoon
Verb: the balloon cleared the tree tops
Verb: Could you clarify these remarks?
Verb: Clear up the question of who is at fault
Verb: Clear the ship and let it dock
Verb: clear the water before it can be drunk
Verb: This sale netted me $1 million
Verb: The company cleared $1 million
Verb: How much do you make a month in your new job?
Verb: She earns a lot in her new job
Verb: this merger brought in lots of money
Verb: He clears $5,000 each month
Verb: We cleared a lot of the old model cars
Verb: clear customs
Verb: The suspect was cleared of the murder charges
Verb: clear a debt
Verb: solve an old debt
Verb: The water had to be cleared through filtering
Verb: clear a memory buffer
Verb: clear the patrons from the theater after the bomb threat
Verb: Clear the building
Verb: Clear the throat
Adjective: a clear and present danger
Adjective: a clear explanation
Adjective: a clear case of murder
Adjective: a clear indication that she was angry
Adjective: gave us a clear idea of human nature
Adjective: a complex problem requiring a clear head
Adjective: not clear about what is expected of us
Adjective: a clear view
Adjective: a clear path to victory
Adjective: open waters
Adjective: the open countryside
Adjective: clear water
Adjective: clear plastic bags
Adjective: clear glass
Adjective: the air is clear and clean
Adjective: we were clear of the danger
Adjective: the ship was clear of the reef
Adjective: a clear conscience
Adjective: regarded her questioner with clear untroubled eyes
Adjective: efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings
Adjective: clear laughter like a waterfall
Adjective: clear reds and blues
Adjective: a light lilting voice like a silver bell
Adjective: I have clear title to this property
Adjective: as clear as a whistle
Adjective: clear footprints in the snow
Adjective: the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather
Adjective: a spire clean-cut against the sky
Adjective: a clear-cut pattern
Adjective: a set of well-defined values
Adjective: on a clear day
Adjective: a clean bill of health
Adjective: a clear winner
Adjective: a clear perfect diamond
Adjective: the clear complexion of a healthy young woman
Adjective: a clear profit
Adjective: is absolved from all blame
Adjective: was now clear of the charge of cowardice
Adjective: his official honor is vindicated
Adjective: clear mind
Adjective: a percipient author
Adverb: read the book clear to the end
Adverb: slept clear through the night
Adverb: there were open fields clear to the horizon
Adverb: could be seen clearly under the microscope
Adverb: She cried loud and clear

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): absolved, acquit, all the way, assoil, authorise, authorize, brighten, bring in, clean, clean-cut, clear, clear up, clear-cut, cleared, clearly, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, decipherable, discharge, earn, elucidate, enlighten, exculpate, exculpated, exonerate, exonerated, gain, illuminate, light, light up, make, net, open, pass, percipient, pull in, readable, realise, realize, sack, sack up, shed light on, solve, sort out, straighten out, take in, top, unclouded, unclutter, unmortgaged, vindicated, well-defined

Antonyms(反意語): bounce, cloudy, clutter, convict, ill-defined, opaque, overcast, unclear

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): area, change, clarify, empty, free, get, innocence, make, pass, permit, profit, pronounce, remove, rid, sell, settle, succeed, take out, vanish, yield

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ablate, accelerate, accept, acerbate, acetylate, achieve, achromatize, acquire, acquit, activate, adjust, admit, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, allow, alter, americanize, amputate, anchorage, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arena, arouse, arrive, arterialize, ash, aspirate, assemble, assimilate, auction, authorize, automatize, awaken, bail, bail out, barb, barbarize, bear, beat, bed ground, beget, bestialize, better, blamelessness, blast, bleed, blind, blister, block, blunt, blur, bob under, boil, bone, bootleg, borrow, break, break down, brighten, bring, broadcast area, brush, brutalize, bubble, build, bur, burl, buy, calcify, call in, camp, capitalize, capture, carve out, cash in on, cashier, catch, cause, cause to sleep, center, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, chip away, chop, choreograph, circularize, circumcise, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clean out, cleanse, clear, clear off, cleave, clinch, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, collect, color, come by, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, compose, compromise, concert, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, construct, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, convict, cook, cool, copy, corner, corrupt, counterchange, crack, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create verbally, crumb, cry, customize, cut, damage, danger, darken, de-emphasize, de-iodinate, de-ionate, deaccession, deaden, deaminate, decalcify, decarbonize, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decorticate, decrease, decrepitate, defang, deflate, deform, defuse, degas, dehorn, dehydrogenate, delete, delouse, demagnetize, dematerialize, demineralize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demystify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, derive, desensitize, desorb, destabilize, detoxify, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, dig, digest, digitize, dinge, direct, dirty, disable, disambiguate, disaster area, discharge, discolor, disembody, disembowel, disharmonize, disinfest, disintegrate, disinvolve, dislodge, disorder, dispose, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distill, diversify, divest, dizzy, domesticate, dope, drain, draw, draw off, dredge, dry, dull, dump, dynamize, earn, ease up, edit, elaborate, eliminate, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, enter upon, enucleate, epilate, equal, eroticize, establish, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evacuate, evaporate, even, eviscerate, excavate, excite, exenterate, exhaust, expectorate, extend, exteriorize, extirpate, extract, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, film, film-make, find, fix, flatten, flick, flocculate, foist off, form, free port, freeze, frenchify, froth, full, furlough, gain, gelatinize, generate, get, get by, give, glamorize, glom, glorify, grind, gut, habituate, harmonize, harshen, harvest, haunt, head, hearth, heat, high country, hit, hollow, hue, hull, humanize, humble, hunting ground, husk, hydrogenate, hypophysectomize, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, incorporate, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inherit, inseminate, institute, insulate, intensify, internationalize, intonate, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isolate, isomerize, knock out, ladle, laicize, lay down, leach, lease, legalize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, liberate, lifehack, lift, line up, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, luck out, magnetize, make, manufacture, mark, masculinize, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, morph, move, muck, muddy, mythologize, nail down, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, negociate, neighborhood, net, neutralize, nick, no man’s land, no-go area, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, obtain, occidentalize, officialize, offset, opacify, opalize, open, opsonize, orientalize, originate, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, pan out, parallel, partake, pass, patent, pay off, personalize, pick, pick up, piggyback, pit, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, poll, port, preempt, prepare, press, press out, privilege, produce, professionalize, profit, profiteer, proof, prostitute, prostrate, pull, pull off, puncture, purify, put, put on, pyramid, quadrant, qualify, radicalize, rain shadow, raise, rarefy, rationalize, re-create, realize, ream, receive, reclaim, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, recover, recreate, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regenerate, relax, relieve, remainder, remodel, reproduce, resect, resell, resort area, restore, retail, retreat, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rule, run, rusticate, sacrifice, safety, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, scale, scalp, scavenge, scene, schematize, scoop, scramble, scrape, section, seed, sell off, sell short, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shed, shell, shift, short-circuit, shorten, shrubbery, shuck, simplify, skim, slenderize, smooth, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, space, spice, spike, spoon, sputter, stabilize, staging area, stain, steepen, stem, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, strike, string, strip, style, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, syndicate, take away, take off, take out, take over, tame, tank farm, tear away, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tip, tone down, touch, tout, track, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, trust, turn, turn back, tusk, twine, uglify, unburden, unclutter, undersell, undock, unhinge, uniformize, unite, unpack, unsaddle, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, unstring, untie, untune, unveil, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, void, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, wash, weaken, weaponize, wear away, weed, wet, wholesale, widen, win back, winner’s circle, winnow, wipe off, withdraw, work, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): approbate, approve, certificate, clear, clear-cut, commission, declare, deforest, denude, eke out, gross, hop, license, profit, purge, rake in, rake off, stump, take home, validate, vindicate, whitewash, yield

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: acquittal, authorisation, authoriser, authorization, authorizer, clarity, clear, clearance, clearcutness, clearing, clearness, earner, elucidation, elucidative, exculpation, exculpatory, exoneration, exonerative, gainer, illumination, lucidity, net, open, openness, pass, perceive, readability, solvent, top, uncloudedness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law, technology

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, online

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

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: