つれない

• 読み: つれない
• ローマ字: tsurenai
• 発音: /tsɯ.ɾe.na.i/

意味

Cold; indifferent; heartless; unkind. Describes someone who responds with coldness or dismissiveness to another person's feelings or advances.

An i-adjective written in hiragana. The word appears frequently in romantic and literary contexts to describe emotional unavailability or deliberate coldness toward someone who cares. Unlike simply 冷たい (tsumetai, cold), つれない has an interpersonal, often romantic quality—the coldness of someone choosing not to connect.

例文

1. 何度連絡しても彼女のつれない返事が続き、心が折れそうだった。
2. そんなつれない態度をとらないで、たまには話を聞いてくれよ。
3. 長年の友人につれない扱いをされ、彼は深く傷ついた。

使い方ガイド

場面: romance, relationships, literature, emotional expression

トーン: negative

起源と歴史

Believed to derive from 連れ (tsure, companion, connection) with the negative ない, literally meaning 'having no connection' or 'unaccompanied in feeling.' The word has appeared in classical poetry and prose to describe emotional coldness or unavailability.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal