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Japanese
Adjective
恐しい • (osoroshii) -i (adverbial 恐しく (osoroshiku))
- Alternative spelling of 恐ろしい
- 1905–06, Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat (text here) (I am a Cat):
- しかしその当時は何という考もなかったから別段恐しいとも思わなかった。
- Shikashi sono tōji wa nan to iu kangae mo nakatta kara betsudan osoroshii to mo omowanakatta.
- Yet at the time I didn't think about it enough to become at all frightened by it.
- 1918, 芥川龍之介 (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa), 蜘蛛の糸 ("The Spider's Thread"):
- 犍陀多はこれを見ると、驚いたのと恐しいのとで、しばらくはただ、莫迦のように大きな口を開いたまま、眼ばかり動かして居りました。
- Kentada wa kore o miru to, odoroita no to osoroshī no to de, shibaraku wa tada, baka no yō ni ōki na kuchi o hiraita mama, me bakari ugokashite orimashita.
- For a while, Kendata, struck dumb with amazement and fear, could only stare open-mouthed at the scene.