rehearsed
リハーサルした
解説 Definition
「rehearsed」は形容詞で、「リハーサルした」「練習済みの」という意味です。演技、発表、返答などが事前に何度も練習されている状態を表します。
Rehearsed describes a performance, speech, response, procedure, or action that has been practiced in advance. Depending on context, it may praise careful preparation or suggest that something sounds artificial and insufficiently spontaneous.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
rehearsed は原形 rehearse の語末 e を落として -ed を付けた形で、発音は /rɪˈhɜːrst/。ここでは「事前に練習された」という形容詞です。a well-rehearsed performance／procedure のような好意的用法と、an answer sounded rehearsed のような「作り物めいた」という含みの両方を押さえましょう。
Connect rehearsed with the base verb rehearse: drop the final e and add -ed. The ending is pronounced /t/ here, giving /rɪˈhɜːrst/. Imagine actors repeating a scene until it is ready for an audience. “A well-rehearsed performance” praises preparation, while “his answer sounded rehearsed” may imply that the response feels scripted or unnatural. The word can also describe practiced emergency procedures. This range helps you remember that rehearsed means prepared through prior practice, but the speaker’s attitude depends on whether preparation or lack of spontaneity matters.
例文
The actors gave a well-rehearsed performance.
俳優たちはよくリハーサルした演技を見せました。
His answer sounded rehearsed, not natural.
彼の答えは自然ではなく、リハーサルしたもののように聞こえました。
The team followed a rehearsed emergency procedure.
そのチームは事前に練習していた緊急手順に従いました。
rehearsed の類義語・関連語
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rehearsed の語源・成り立ち Etymology
rehearsed の基の rehearse は古フランス語 rehercier に由来し、さらにラテン語系の「熊手でならす」語にさかのぼります。何度も手を入れて整えるイメージから、「繰り返し練習した」「準備済みの」という意味になりました。関連語は rehearse, rehearsal です。
Rehearsed is the past-participial adjective formed from rehearse by removing the final e and adding -ed. Rehearse came through Old French rehercier, historically associated with going over something repeatedly and ultimately linked to the image of working over ground with a harrow or rake. The physical idea of passing over and arranging something developed into recounting or repeating it. From there came the modern theatrical and practical sense of practicing beforehand until a performance, answer, or procedure is prepared.
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