気だるい

• 読み: けだるい
• ローマ字: kedarui
• 漢字の分解: 気 (ke) — feeling, spirit; だるい — heavy, lethargic (usually written in hiragana)
• 発音: /ke.da.ɾɯ.i/

意味

Languid; listless; sluggish; weary. Describes a feeling of heaviness and low energy, often from fatigue, illness, or oppressive weather.

An i-adjective combining 気 (ke — spirit, feeling) and だるい (darui — heavy, lethargic). It describes a diffuse physical and mental heaviness — not sharp pain, but a pervasive sense that everything requires more effort than it should. Commonly evoked in descriptions of summer heat, recovery from illness, or the malaise of a grey afternoon.

例文

1. 長時間の移動で体が気だるく、何もする気が起きなかった。
2. 梅雨の時期は気だるい空気が続き、やる気が出にくい。
3. 気だるい午後、彼はソファに寝そべりながら本を読んでいた。

使い方ガイド

場面: physical sensation, weather description, literary mood, daily life

トーン: languorous, introspective

起源と歴史

Compound of 気 (ke — spirit, feeling) and だるい (darui — heavy, lethargic). だるい itself likely derives from a root related to sluggish or drooping sensations.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal