苦しい | [くるしい, kurushii] (adj-i) (1) painful; difficult; agonizing; (2) (See 苦しい懐・くるしいふところ) needy; tight (budget); straitened (circumstances); (3) (See 苦しい言い訳・くるしいいいわけ) forced (smile, joke); lame (excuse); strained (interpretation); (4) awkward (situation); painful (position); (suf, adj-i) (5) (often ぐるしい) (See 寝苦しい・ねぐるしい, 聞き苦しい・ききぐるしい, 見苦しい・みぐるしい) (after masu stem) hard to do; unpleasant; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
むさ苦しい | [むさくるしい, musakurushii] (adj-i) (uk) filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid [Add to Longdo] |
狭苦しい | [せまくるしい, semakurushii] (adj-i) cramped [Add to Longdo] |
胸が苦しい | [むねがくるしい, munegakurushii] (exp) have a pain in one's chest [Add to Longdo] |
胸苦しい | [むなぐるしい, munagurushii] (adj-i) (feeling of) tightness in the chest [Add to Longdo] |
苦々しい;苦苦しい | [にがにがしい, niganigashii] (adj-i) unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous [Add to Longdo] |
苦しい懐 | [くるしいふところ, kurushiifutokoro] (n) tight budget [Add to Longdo] |
苦しい言い訳 | [くるしいいいわけ, kurushiiiiwake] (n) lame (poor) excuse [Add to Longdo] |
苦しい時の神頼み | [くるしいときのかみだのみ, kurushiitokinokamidanomi] (exp) danger past, God forgotten [Add to Longdo] |
堅苦しい;固苦しい(iK) | [かたくるしい;かたぐるしい(ik), katakurushii ; katagurushii (ik)] (adj-i) formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff [Add to Longdo] |
見苦しい | [みぐるしい, migurushii] (adj-i) unsightly; ugly; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
重苦しい | [おもくるしい, omokurushii] (adj-i) heavy; gloomy; awkward; cumbrous; oppressive; leaden; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
暑苦しい | [あつくるしい, atsukurushii] (adj-i) sultry; sweltering [Add to Longdo] |
寝苦しい | [ねぐるしい, negurushii] (adj-i) unable to sleep well; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
心苦しい | [こころぐるしい, kokorogurushii] (adj-i) painful; being sorry; feeling sorry [Add to Longdo] |
息苦しい | [いきぐるしい, ikigurushii] (adj-i) choking; oppressive; suffocating [Add to Longdo] |
聞き苦しい;聞苦しい | [ききぐるしい, kikigurushii] (adj-i) difficult to hear; unpleasant to hear [Add to Longdo] |