English Dictionary

rogue

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹəʊ̯ɡ/

形容詞

動物 広義

(of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary. / (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable. / (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled. / Mischievous, unpredictable.

日本語の意味

（例えば象に関して）凶暴で孤高な / 拡大解釈して、大きく破壊的で予測不可能な / 拡大解釈して、欺瞞的で無原則な / いたずら好きで予測がつかない

The park rangers cautiously approached a rogue elephant that had been raiding villages at night.

国立公園のレンジャーたちは、夜に村を襲っていた凶暴で単独行動する象に慎重に近づいた。

意味（1）

(of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.

意味（2）

(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.

意味（3）

(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.

In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the Silent Majority of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.

意味（4）

Mischievous, unpredictable.

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

more rogue （ comparative ）

most rogue （ superlative ）