torment

/tɔːrˈmɛnt/

意味: 苦痛、拷問

例文: The heat was pure torment.
　　  暑さはまさに苦痛だった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: mental torment(精神的苦痛), physical torment(身体的苦痛), emotional torment(感情的苦痛)

定義: 苦しめることや苦痛を与えることを指します。精神的、身体的、または感情的な苦痛を感じる状態や、他人にそのような苦痛を与える行為を意味します。

tormentは約400,000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: unbearable physical pain
Noun: extreme mental distress
Noun: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
Noun: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
Noun: a severe affliction
Noun: the act of harassing someone
Verb: torment emotionally or mentally
Verb: treat cruelly
Verb: subject to torture

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The constant noise caused him great torment.(絶え間ない騒音が彼に大きな苦痛を与えた。)
She endured the torment of losing her home.(彼女は家を失う苦しみに耐えた。)
His mind was filled with torment and doubt.(彼の心は苦悩と疑念で満ちていた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: an agony of doubt
Noun: the torments of the damned
Noun: so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors
Verb: The children tormented the stuttering teacher
Verb: The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): agony, anguish, badgering, bedevil, bedevilment, crucify, curse, dun, excruciate, frustrate, harassment, rack, rag, torment, torture, worrying

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): affliction, annoyance, distress, harass, harassment, injure, pain, suffering

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ache, aggravation, agonize, agony, anguish, arthralgia, attack, badgering, baiting, bane, break someone’s heart, bruise, burn, calk, calvary, causalgia, chest pain, chiralgia, colic, concuss, curse, disable, discomfort, displeasure, distress, dysmenorrhea, fracture, frustration, glossalgia, graze, growing pains, harassment, harm, haze, hemorrhoid, keratalgia, knife, labor pain, maim, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, needle, nephralgia, neuralgia, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, photalgia, pique, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, pull, referred pain, renal colic, run down, self-torture, sexual harassment, shoot, skin, smart, sting, stitch, subluxate, tease, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, throes, torment, torture, trample, traumatize, trial, try, tsoris, twist, ulalgia, urodynia, witch-hunt, wound

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): hamstring, madden, martyr, persecute, rack, tease

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: agonal, agonise, agonist, anguish, bedevil, bedevilment, crucifixion, excruciation, frustration, rack, torment, tormenter, tormentor, torture, torturer, torturing, torturous, worry

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ment

Exam Level

英検1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画):

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: anger, fear, negative, sadness