色褪せた

• 読み: いろあせた
• ローマ字: iroaseta
• 漢字の分解: 色 (shoku/iro) — colour; 褪 (tai/a) — fade, bleach
• 発音: /i.ɾo.a.se.ta/

意味

Faded; discoloured; stale; outdated. Describes something that has lost its original vibrancy, freshness, or relevance.

Formed from 色褪せる (iro aseru — to fade, to lose colour), the past form 色褪せた is used as a pre-nominal adjective. Both literal (a faded photograph, a bleached poster) and figurative (a faded dream, an outdated ideology). The figurative sense is especially powerful in literary contexts describing ideals or emotions that have dimmed with the passage of time.

例文

1. 色褪せた写真を見ると、祖父の若い頃の面影が偲ばれた。
2. 時代とともに、かつての理念は色褪せてしまった。
3. 色褪せたポスターが壁に貼られたまま、誰にも気づかれていなかった。

使い方ガイド

場面: literature, nostalgia, photography, history

トーン: melancholic

起源と歴史

Compound of 色 (iro — colour) + 褪せる (aseru — to fade, to lose colour). The kanji 褪 (tai/a) means to bleach or fade — relatively rare but preserved in this word and in 褪色 (discolouration).

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adult

社会的背景: General