reluctant / reticent の違い
意味の違い
| reluctant | 気が進まない | |
| reticent | 無口な・（about ～について）口の重い |
色がついた文字が、つづりの違う部分です。
見分けるコツ
reluctant to do は「したくない」。reticent は話すことに消極的（reticent about ～）。「気が進まない」の意味で reticent を使うのは誤用とされる。
例文で確かめる
- Many workers are reluctant to change jobs during a recession.多くの働き手は不況の間は転職に消極的だ。
- The actor is famously reticent about his private life.その俳優は私生活について口が重いことで知られている。
紛らわしい語ドリルで確かめる
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ほかの紛らわしい語
- conform / confirm
- adapt / adopt / adept
- affect / effect
- complement / compliment
- principal / principle
- stationary / stationery
- economic / economical
- historic / historical
- sensible / sensitive
- respectful / respective / respectable
- imply / infer
- prescribe / proscribe
- precede / proceed
- elicit / illicit
- eminent / imminent
- ensure / insure
- continual / continuous
- deduce / deduct
- loose / lose
- lend / borrow
- rise / raise
- lie / lay
- access / assess / excess
- expand / expend
- comprehensive / comprehensible
- considerable / considerate
- industrial / industrious
- successful / successive
- literal / literary / literate
- invaluable / valueless
- alternate / alternative
- discreet / discrete
- flout / flaunt
- prosecute / persecute
- perspective / prospective
- collaborate / corroborate
- accept / except
- advise / advice
- council / counsel
- moral / morale
- personal / personnel
- device / devise
- dividend / divided
- asset / assert
- depreciate / deprecate
- compose / comprise
- exhaustive / exhausting
- emigrate / immigrate
- vocation / vacation
- statue / statute / stature
- ingenious / ingenuous
- credible / credulous
- averse / adverse
- canvas / canvass
- sculpture / sculptor
- effective / efficient
- rational / rationale
- reign / rein
- brake / break
- accede / exceed
- collect / correct
- vary / very
- through / thorough / though
- later / latter
- beside / besides
- hoard / horde
- wander / wonder
- precedent / president
- bond / bound
- allude / elude
- allusion / illusion / delusion
- ascent / assent
- censor / censure
- cite / site / sight
- climactic / climatic
- compulsive / compulsory
- conscience / conscious
- contemptible / contemptuous
- decent / descent / dissent
- defuse / diffuse
- disinterested / uninterested
- envelop / envelope
- farther / further
- flair / flare
- forward / foreword
- intelligent / intelligible
- loath / loathe
- marital / martial
- militate / mitigate
- overdo / overdue
- peak / peek / pique
- perpetrate / perpetuate
- regretful / regrettable
- tortuous / torturous
- weather / whether
- wreak / wreck
- appraise / apprise
- cease / seize
- causal / casual
- coarse / course
- confidant / confident
- desert / dessert
- eligible / illegible
- human / humane
- prophecy / prophesy
- raze / raise
- tenant / tenet
- vain / vein
- populace / populous
- patience / patients
- dual / duel
- alter / altar
- fewer / less
- number / amount
- between / among
- imitate / intimate / intimidate
- incidence / incidents
- quite / quiet
- emit / omit