遠慮|えんりょenryo[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbreserve; constraint; restraint; modesty; diffidence; hesitation; holding back; discretion; tact; thoughtfulness
2. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbdeclining; refraining
   ここでのおタバコはご遠慮えんりょ願ねがいます。↗

   Please refrain from smoking here.
3. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbforethought; foresightorig. meaning

• Synonym慎みつつしみWrittenWritten/formal prose for prudence and self-restraint, as in 「慎みのない態度」; stresses self-control as a personal quality, not holding back for others' sake.
• Synonym謙遜けんそんNeutralModesty or humility, as in 「謙遜して言う」: about keeping yourself low, while 「遠慮」 is about yielding out of consideration for others.
• Synonym謙譲けんじょうWrittenWritten/formal prose for humble modesty or yielding; also the word behind 「謙譲語」, the humble form of honorific speech.
• Related断ることわるNeutralTo refuse or turn down, as in 「誘いを断る」; more direct than the soft 「遠慮します」.
• Related辞退じたいWrittenWritten/formal prose for formally declining or withdrawing, as in 「出場を辞退する」.
• RelatedきょうけんFormalFormal term for respectful humility; very rare.
• Antonym無遠慮ぶえんりょNeutralThe opposite of 「遠慮」: not holding back, presumptuous, as in 「無遠慮な質問」.
• Antonym遠慮なしCasualColloquial opposite of 「遠慮」: with no holding back, as in 「遠慮なしに言う」.

Use 「遠慮」 for politeness or politely declining. For modesty pick 「謙遜」, for self-restraint 「慎み」, for a direct refusal 「断る」, for formally declining an offer 「辞退」; 「無遠慮」 means not holding back.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 他人たにんに気きを配くばって、言動げんどうを慎つつしみ控ひかえること。
2. 事情じじょうや状況じょうきょうを考かんがえて、辞退じたいすること。断ことわったりやめたりすることを婉曲えんきょくに言いう語ご。
3. 席せきをはずすこと。
4. （原義げんぎ）遠とおい将来しょうらいのことをよく考かんがえること。
5. 江戸えど時代じだいの刑けいの一ひとつ。軽かるい謹慎きんしん罪ざいであり、武士ぶしや僧侶そうりょに対たいし、門もんを閉とじて昼間ひるまの外出がいしゅつを禁止きんししたが、夜間やかんのくぐり門もんからの外出がいしゅつは黙認もくにんされた。