List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular rarely used kanji form formal or literary term な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- intense, violent, severe, vehement
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- puniness, youth
popular rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- obedient, submissive, docile, meek, pliant
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の archaic
- peace, tranquility, tranquillity
- happy-go-lucky
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- abundant, ample, plentiful, affluent
- lustrous, glossy
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- tasteless, flavourless
- uninteresting, dull, dry, insipid
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- lack of understanding, lack of sympathy
popular obsolete reading noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) archaic
- villainous, rascally, knavish
- independent, self-reliant
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- variable, changeable, convertible, controllable
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- questionable, doubtful, suspicious