"きつい" meaning in Japanese

See きつい in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [kʲi̥t͡sɨi]
Head templates: {{ja-adj|infl=i}} きつい • (kitsui) -i (adverbial きつく (kitsuku)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=く|attributive=い|conditional=ければ|conjunctive=くて|continuative=く|degree=さ|formal=い です|formal_negative=く ない です|formal_negative_past=く なかった です|formal_past=かった です|hypothetical=けれ|imperative=かれ|imperfective=かろ|informal_negative=く ない|informal_negative_past=く なかった|informal_past=かった|kana=|lemma=きつ|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: kitsui [romanization], きつく [adverbial], no-table-tags [table-tags], きつかろ [imperfective, stem], kitsukaro [imperfective, stem], きつく [continuative, stem], kitsuku [continuative, stem], きつい [stem, terminative], kitsui [stem, terminative], きつい [attributive, stem], kitsui [attributive, stem], きつけれ [hypothetical, stem], kitsukere [hypothetical, stem], きつかれ [imperative, stem], kitsukare [imperative, stem], きつくない [informal, negative], kitsuku nai [informal, negative], きつかった [informal, past], kitsukatta [informal, past], きつくなかった [informal, negative, past], kitsuku nakatta [informal, negative, past], きついです [formal], kitsui desu [formal], きつくないです [formal, negative], kitsuku nai desu [formal, negative], きつかったです [formal, past], kitsukatta desu [formal, past], きつくなかったです [formal, negative, past], kitsuku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], きつくて [conjunctive], kitsukute [conjunctive], きつければ [conditional], kitsukereba [conditional], きつかったら [conditional, past], kitsukattara [conditional, past], きつかろう [volitional], kitsukarō [volitional], きつく [adverbial], kitsuku [adverbial], きつさ [noun-from-adj], kitsusa [noun-from-adj]
  1. tight, close
    Sense id: en-きつい-ja-adj-Nr2adFv4
  2. intense, severe, hard, demanding
    Sense id: en-きつい-ja-adj-90lwEQbI
  3. determined, forceful, formidable
    Sense id: en-きつい-ja-adj-A5eijNUg Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 2 6 92 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 3 10 87 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 2 7 91 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 2 6 91 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 2 6 91 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 4 96

Alternative forms

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "yurui",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "緩",
          "ゆる"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "緩い"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kitsui",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつく",
      "roman": "kitsuku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsui",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsui",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きついです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsui desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsusa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "きつい • (kitsui) -i (adverbial きつく (kitsuku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "きつ",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tight, close"
      ],
      "id": "en-きつい-ja-adj-Nr2adFv4",
      "links": [
        [
          "tight",
          "tight"
        ],
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "intense, severe, hard, demanding"
      ],
      "id": "en-きつい-ja-adj-90lwEQbI",
      "links": [
        [
          "intense",
          "intense"
        ],
        [
          "severe",
          "severe"
        ],
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "demanding",
          "demanding"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 6 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 10 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 7 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 6 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 6 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "determined, forceful, formidable"
      ],
      "id": "en-きつい-ja-adj-A5eijNUg",
      "links": [
        [
          "determined",
          "determined"
        ],
        [
          "forceful",
          "forceful"
        ],
        [
          "formidable",
          "formidable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "きつい"
    },
    {
      "other": "きつい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kʲi̥t͡sɨi]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "きつい"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "yurui",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "緩",
          "ゆる"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "緩い"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Japanese adjectives",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with manual fragments",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese い-i adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kitsui",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつく",
      "roman": "kitsuku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsui",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsui",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きついです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsui desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsukarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsuku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "きつさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kitsusa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "きつい • (kitsui) -i (adverbial きつく (kitsuku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "きつ",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tight, close"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tight",
          "tight"
        ],
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "intense, severe, hard, demanding"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intense",
          "intense"
        ],
        [
          "severe",
          "severe"
        ],
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "demanding",
          "demanding"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "determined, forceful, formidable"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "determined",
          "determined"
        ],
        [
          "forceful",
          "forceful"
        ],
        [
          "formidable",
          "formidable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "きつい"
    },
    {
      "other": "きつい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kʲi̥t͡sɨi]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "きつい"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.