waste

/weɪst/

意味: 無駄、廃棄物

例文: ALX sorted electronic waste.
　　  ALXが電子廃棄物を分類した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: waste time(時間を無駄にする), waste money(お金を無駄にする), waste resources(資源を無駄にする)

定義: 使わないで捨てることや、無駄にすることを指します。例えば、必要以上に使ってしまったり、役に立たないものにしてしまうことです。また、ゴミや不要なものを指すこともあります。

wasteは約20,000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: any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
Noun: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
Noun: the trait of wasting resources
Noun: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Noun: (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Verb: spend thoughtlessly; throw away
Verb: use inefficiently or inappropriately
Verb: get rid of
Verb: run off as waste
Verb: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Verb: spend extravagantly
Verb: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Verb: cause to grow thin or weak
Verb: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Verb: become physically weaker
Adjective: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Don’t waste food when you are cooking.(料理中に食べ物を無駄にしないでください。)
They waste time watching too much television.(彼らはテレビを見すぎて時間を無駄にしている。)
We should not waste water during droughts.(干ばつの時は水を無駄にしてはいけません。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: they collect the waste once a week
Noun: much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
Noun: if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
Noun: mindless dissipation of natural resources
Noun: a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
Noun: the wastefulness of missed opportunities
Noun: the barrens of central Africa
Noun: the trackless wastes of the desert
Verb: He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
Verb: You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
Verb: waste heat
Verb: waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
Verb: We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
Verb: The water wastes back into the ocean
Verb: The mafia liquidated the informer
Verb: the double agent was neutralized
Verb: waste not, want not
Verb: After her husband died, she just pined away
Verb: The treatment emaciated him
Verb: The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
Verb: Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
Adjective: a desert island
Adjective: a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
Adjective: a wild stretch of land
Adjective: waste places

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): barren, blow, consume, desolate, devastate, dissipation, do in, emaciate, godforsaken, knock off, languish, lay waste to, liquidate, macerate, neutralise, neutralize, permissive waste, pine away, ravage, rot, run off, scourge, squander, thriftlessness, ware, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product, wastefulness, wasteland, wild

Antonyms(反意語): conserve

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): act, activity, destroy, devolve, discard, enfeeble, improvidence, kill, material, run, spend, use, weaken, wilderness

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abandon, abrasive, abuse, acquiring, acting, action, activity, address, adhesive material, afford, aggregate, aid, ammunition, animal material, assassinate, assumption, atom, attempt, attenuate, avail, ballast, barren, bedding material, behavior, bimetal, blow, blur, brain, break, builder, burn, burst, bush, bust up, butcher, buzz, calibration, cannibalize, causing, ceremony, chemical, circulate, close out, collapse, coloring material, commit suicide, communication, composite material, concealment, conductor, consume, contaminant, continuance, control, creation, cup of tea, de-access, decapitate, decimate, deep-six, delivery, demand, departure, derivation, destroy, detritus, devour, diamagnet, die down, discharge, discovery, dismantling, dismember, dispatch, disposal, distribution, diversion, do a job on, domesticity, drain, draw, drown, dull, dump, dust, earth, eddy, education, egress, elastomer, electrocute, eliminate, energizing, enjoy, enjoyment, equalization, erase, execute, exert, exhumation, explode, exploit, exterminate, extravagance, fade, fall back, fiber, filling, floccule, fluff, flush, foam, follow-up, forfeit, frontier, fun, game, get, give, group action, grouping, gutter, harry, hazmat, hindrance, hire, homogenate, humate, impale, implement, implementation, impregnation, inactivity, insulator, invest, jet, jettison, judgment, kick in, lamentation, languish, last, laughter, lay out, lay waste to, leadership, leaning, legitimation, liveliness, loosen, lynch, market, martyr, massacre, measurement, melt, mineral, misapply, misspend, mitzvah, motivation, murder, music, mystification, negotiation, neutralize, nonaccomplishment, occupation, operation, organization, overlie, overuse, packing material, pall, paper, particulate, penny-pinch, perturbation, pervert, piddle, pine away, placement, plant material, play, pleasure, ply, poison, politics, pour, practice, precession, precursor, preparation, procedure, proclamation, production, propulsion, protection, provision, pull out all the stops, puncture, put, put away, radioactive material, rape, raw material, recovery, recycle, rejection, release, representation, residency, retire, rind, rock, role, run down, running away, saber, sacrifice, save, sealing material, search, seep, sell out, sensory activity, service, share, shed blood, shipwreck, shoot, sin, slacken, slow, smother, solo, sorbate, sorbent, space walk, spare, speech act, spill, stay, stone, stop, strain, strangle, stream, subside, subvert, support, take, take off, thickening, thriftlessness, tide, timekeeping, tire, tomahawk, toner, touch, training, transparent substance, trash, trickle, turn, undercut, underspend, unlearn, use, vandalize, variation, verbalization, vernix, wad, wanton, wash out, waste, wear, wilt, work, works, worship, writing, wrongdoing, zap

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): body waste, boondoggle, burn, effluent, exhaust, extravagance, filth, fritter, garbage, heath, impurity, lavish, luxuriate, necrose, overspend, pollutant, rubbish, ruin, sewage, slop, splurge, squandering, toxic waste, waste of effort, waste of material, waste of money, waste of time

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: barren, desolation, devastation, dissipate, emaciation, languisher, liquidation, liquidator, maceration, ravage, ravaging, runoff, scourge, squanderer, squandering, thriftless, wastage, waste, wasteful, waster, wasting, wild, wilderness

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

高校レベル

英検4級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, 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?) Yes

Emotion Categories: disgust, negative