English Dictionary

plastic

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈplæstɪk/

形容詞

古語 古風 比喩的用法 くだけた表現 人物

Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant. / (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue. / (dated) Creative, formative.

日本語の意味

成形可能で、柔軟性や可鍛性がある / （医学用語として、現在はあまり使われない）組織を形成する性質がある / （時代が古い意味）創造的で、形成的な性質がある

The sculptor worked with a plastic clay, shaping it into lifelike figures.

彫刻家は可塑性のある粘土を使い、写実的な像を形作った。

意味（1）

Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.

, Folio Society 1973, page 103: the rage […] betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.

意味（2）

(medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.

意味（3）

(dated) Creative, formative.

Benign Creator! let thy plastic hand dispose its own effect

意味（4）

(biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.

意味（5）

Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.

意味（6）

Made of plastic.

A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

意味（7）

Inferior or not the real thing.

The Hippie has been replaced by the pseudo-Hippie, the plastic Hippie, the weekend Hippie

意味（8）

(figuratively, informal, of a person) fake; insincere.

He kissed the white woman once, and it was so artificial, so plastic (that's the word, plastic) that one wondered why did they bother at all.

more plastic （ comparative ）

most plastic （ superlative ）