List: adjective (keiyoushi)
Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- stable (market) after having bottomed out
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- yellow
- high-pitched (voice), shrill
popular search-only kanji form expression い adjective adjective (generic)
- there's no (other) way
- cannot be helped, unavoidable, inevitable, (there's) nothing one can do, having no choice
- it's no use (doing), pointless, useless, no good, insufficient, not enough
- hopeless (person), annoying, troublesome, awful
- cannot stand it, unbearable, cannot help (doing, feeling), dying (to do)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- equal, identical, the same
- no different (from), just like, equivalent
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 い adjective adjective (generic)
- flat, even, level
- plain (language, words, etc.), simple
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- stale, old fashioned, hackneyed, trite, antiquated, obsolete, musty, outdated
popular irregular reading search-only kanji form い adjective adjective (generic)
- formal, stiff, strict, ceremonious
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- cold, short, curt, blunt
popular rarely used kanji form い adjective adjective (generic)
- suitable, appropriate, becoming, fitting
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- anxiously, with anxious looks, with anxiety