Word · 単語
苦しい
Reading くるしい
painful
- 1 painful, difficult, tough, hard
- 2 distressing, (psychologically) difficult, stressful, awkward (e.g. position)
- 3 straitened (circumstances), tight (financial situation), needy, struggling
- 4 strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.), lame (e.g. excuse), forced (e.g. smile), far-fetched
- 5 hard to do, unpleasant — after -masu stem of verb; often ぐるしい
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例文 · examples
苦しい、やめろ。
It's so painful. Stop it!
sense 1 · painful
彼の家族はかなり生活が苦しい。
His family is rather badly off.
sense 3 · straitened (circumstances)
彼は過去の苦しい生活を黙想した。
He meditated on his past life of suffering.
sense 2 · distressing
良薬は口に苦し。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
人生が楽しい人もいれば、苦しい人もいる。
To some life is pleasure, to others suffering.