いまわしい

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Japanese

Alternative spellings
忌まわしい忌わしい (less common)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いまわしい (Nakadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Adjective

いまわしい • (imawashii) ^{←いまはしい (imafasii)^?}-i (adverbial いまわしく (imawashiku))

abhorrent, unpleasant, disgusting, hateful
disastrous, ominous, unlucky

Inflection

Inflection of いまわしい

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	いまわしかろ	imawashikaro
Continuative (連用形)	いまわしく	imawashiku
Terminal (終止形)	いまわしい	imawashii
Attributive (連体形)	いまわしい	imawashii
Hypothetical (仮定形)	いまわしけれ	imawashikere
Imperative (命令形)	いまわしかれ	imawashikare
Key constructions
Informal negative	いまわしくない	imawashiku nai
Informal past	いまわしかった	imawashikatta
Informal negative past	いまわしくなかった	imawashiku nakatta
Formal	いまわしいです	imawashii desu
Formal negative	いまわしくないです	imawashiku nai desu
Formal past	いまわしかったです	imawashikatta desu
Formal negative past	いまわしくなかったです	imawashiku nakatta desu
Conjunctive	いまわしくて	imawashikute
Conditional	いまわしければ	imawashikereba
Provisional	いまわしかったら	imawashikattara
Volitional	いまわしかろう	imawashikarō
Adverbial	いまわしく	imawashiku
Degree	いまわしさ	imawashisa

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “abhorrent”): 喜(よろこ)ばしい (yorokobashii, “pleasant”)
(antonym(s) of “disastrous”): 喜(よろこ)ばしい (yorokobashii), めでたい (medetai, “auspicious”)

See also

きもい (kimoi)
凶兆(きょうちょう) (kyōchō)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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