黙殺

• 読み: もくさつ
• ローマ字: mokusatsu
• 漢字の分解: 黙 (moku) — silence, keep quiet; 殺 (satsu) — kill, suppress
• 発音: /mo.kɯ.satsɯ/

意味

Ignoring; disregarding; killing by silence. Deliberately choosing not to respond or acknowledge something, effectively suppressing it.

A suru-verb noun (黙殺する). The word is historically notable: Japan's 1945 government use of 黙殺 in response to the Potsdam Declaration was reportedly mistranslated by Allied forces as 'ignore' or 'reject', with major consequences. In everyday use, 黙殺 describes deliberately not responding to criticism, petitions, or inconvenient topics — a pointed silence that functions as a form of dismissal.

例文

1. 政府は市民団体の陳情を黙殺し、何の反応も示さなかった。
2. 批判的なコメントをすべて黙殺するのは、長期的に見て逆効果だ。
3. 上司は部下の提案を黙殺し続けたため、チームの士気が大きく低下した。

使い方ガイド

場面: politics, media, corporate culture, history

トーン: critical

起源と歴史

Sino-Japanese compound. 黙 means silence, 殺 means to kill — together expressing the image of 'killing with silence', suppressing something by refusing to acknowledge it.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Universal