lose

/luːz/

意味: 失う、負ける

例文: Kai lost his sword in battle.
　　  カイが戦いで剣を失った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: lose weight(体重を減らす), lose interest(興味を失う), lose control(制御を失う)

定義: 何かを持っていたが、今は持っていない状態になること。例えば、物をなくしたり、試合で負けたりすることを指します。

loseは約8,000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)

Verb: fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
Verb: fail to win
Verb: suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
Verb: place (something) where one cannot find it again
Verb: miss from one’s possessions; lose sight of
Verb: allow to go out of sight
Verb: fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
Verb: fail to get or obtain
Verb: retreat
Verb: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
Verb: be set at a disadvantage

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

I don’t want to lose my keys again.(また鍵をなくしたくない。)
She will lose the game if she is careless.(彼女は不注意なら試合に負けるだろう。)
They lose track of time while working.(彼らは仕事中に時間を忘れる。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat
Verb: We lost the battle but we won the war
Verb: She lost her husband in the war
Verb: The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her
Verb: I misplaced my eyeglasses
Verb: I’ve lost my glasses again!
Verb: The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light
Verb: I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!
Verb: The company turned a loss after the first year
Verb: I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad
Verb: I missed that remark
Verb: She missed his point
Verb: We lost part of what he said
Verb: This author really suffers in translation

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): drop off, fall back, fall behind, lose, mislay, misplace, miss, recede, suffer, turn a loss

Antonyms(反意語): break even, find, gain, keep, profit, win

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): put, regress, suffer, worsen

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): agonize, anguish, appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, deprive, devolve, dispose, docket, emplace, ensconce, fail, fall back, glycerolize, grieve, ground, imbricate, inflame, insert, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, ladle, lay, lean, load, lose, marshal, middle, misplace, nestle, parallelize, park, perch, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, plant, poise, position, postpose, prepose, rack up, recess, recline, regress, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, set, set down, settle, shelve, ship, sicken, sign, siphon, situate, slip, sow, space, stand, step, stratify, suffer, superimpose, superpose, tee, throw, trench, tumble, turn down, underlay, upend

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): drop, drop one’s serve, forget, go down, overlook, sleep off, take the count, white-out

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: loser, losings, receding, recession

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

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4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?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, disgust, fear, negative, sadness, surprise