jmdict 1419690 Active (id#2220967)
断然 [ichi1,news1,nf19]
だんぜん [ichi1,news1,nf19]
  1. [adv,adj-t]
    • firmly
    • flatly
    • resolutely
    • decisively
    • absolutely
    • definitely
  2. [adv]
    • definitely (wrong, different, etc.)
    • absolutely
  3. [adv]
    • by far
    • far and away
    • by a long shot
    • hands down
History:
    • A 2023-02-05 06:19:52 Jim Breen (id#2220967)
    • Comments
      OK. MOst of the examples are for sense 3.
    • A* 2023-02-05 00:54:16 Robin Scott (id#2220956)
    • Comments
      Daijr added this sense in the 3rd edition. My initial thought was that it's too similar to sense 1 but the shinmeikai and prog examples above do look like a distinct sense.
    • Refs
      daijr:(後に打ち消しの語を伴って)強い確信や意思をもって否定する気持ちを表す。「―許さない」
      shinmeikai: その判断が間違い無く成立すると主張することを表わす。「毎年負けてばかりいたが、今年は―〔=全く〕ちがっていた/―〔=決して〕そんな事は無い」
      prog: 断然まちがっています  That is definitely wrong.
    • Diff
      @@ -22,0 +23 @@
      +<gloss>absolutely</gloss>
      @@ -27 +28 @@
      -<s_inf>with neg. sentence</s_inf>
      +<gloss>definitely (wrong, different, etc.)</gloss>
      @@ -29,3 +29,0 @@
      -<gloss>definitely</gloss>
      -<gloss>(not) in the least</gloss>
      -<gloss>(not) at all</gloss>
    • A* 2023-02-04 00:39:16 Jim Breen (id#2220788)
    • Comments
      I've sat on this for a while (as has everyone else...) Frankly, I think it's best as the two senses Robin set up in 2018. The refs are divided but two senses seem most common.
    • A* 2023-01-10 10:45:09 Kyle Ong (id#2218660)
    • Comments
      added definition
    • Refs
      https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/断然/#jn-140264
    • Diff
      @@ -20 +19,0 @@
      -<gloss>absolutely</gloss>
      @@ -24,0 +24,8 @@
      +</sense>
      +<sense>
      +<pos>&adv;</pos>
      +<s_inf>with neg. sentence</s_inf>
      +<gloss>absolutely</gloss>
      +<gloss>definitely</gloss>
      +<gloss>(not) in the least</gloss>
      +<gloss>(not) at all</gloss>
    • A 2018-01-14 05:44:37 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      Almost all the Tanaka sentences are the "by far" variety.
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