文法: Grammar a Day - Level 2 [ むしろ (mushiro) ]

むしろ (mushiro) - rather

--- Notes ---
彼は疲れているというよりむしろ眠いのだ
He is more sleepy than tired.


--- Examples ---
あの人は学者というよりむしろ政治家だ。
If anything, he is a politician rather than a scholar.

金持ちになるよりむしろ貧乏でいる方がいい。
rather than being rich, I prefer to be poor

とてもすばらしい天気だったのでむしろ歩きたいと思った。
It was so lovely a day that I preferred to walk (Rather than some other
means of transportation).

--- Comments ---
Often used with より (contributor: Amatuka)

Note that you would not normally say
貧乏でいるよりもむしろ金持ちがいい, but you would say
貧乏でいるよりも、やっぱり金持ちがいい。 (contributor:
bamboo4)

Grammatically yes, but I think the intended meaning was the other way
around... Amatuka prefers being poor :) (contributor: dc)

Now that 'Yappari' is official, the 'see also' reference makes sense,
notwithstanding the fact that Amatuka wants to remain poor. (contributor:
bamboo4)

ps in comments you can put another grammar item in square brackets and it
will like like: (contributor: dc)

Like this {yappari]? (contributor: bamboo4)

No, that can't be it. (contributor: bamboo4)

Ha! I gotcha!
(contributor: bamboo4)

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