むさぼる

• 読み: むさぼる
• ローマ字: musaboru
• 漢字の分解: 貪 (ton/musabo) — greed, covetousness (kanji rarely used in practice)
• 発音: /mɯ.sa.bo.ɾɯ/

意味

To devour; to covet; to consume greedily. Describes giving in to excessive appetite or desire with little restraint.

A Group 1 (godan) verb. Written in kanji as 貪る but almost always appears in hiragana. Applies to greedy consumption of food, knowledge, money, or pleasures. Carries a strong negative connotation of excess and lack of self-control. Frequent in literary and critical contexts.

例文

1. 彼は食べ物をむさぼるように口に運んだ。
2. 読書の楽しさを知った子どもが本をむさぼり読んでいる。
3. 権力をむさぼる政治家は民衆の信頼を失う。

使い方ガイド

場面: food, desires, criticism, literature

トーン: critical

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. Related to むさぼり (greed). The kanji 貪 (ton/musabo) means greed or covetousness, depicting the accumulation of things beyond what is needed.

文化的背景

時代: Pre-modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal