"ほこりっぽい" meaning in Japanese

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Adjective

IPA: [ho̞ko̞ɾʲip̚po̞i]
Etymology: From 埃(ほこり) (hokori) + っぽい (-ppoi). Etymology templates: {{ja-compound|埃|ほこり|っぽい|-っぽい|t1=|t2=}} 埃(ほこり) (hokori) + っぽい (-ppoi) Head templates: {{ja-adj|infl=i}} ほこりっぽい • (hokorippoi) -i (adverbial ほこりっぽく (hokorippoku)) 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=ほこりっぽ|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: hokorippoi [romanization], ほこりっぽく [adverbial], no-table-tags [table-tags], ほこりっぽかろ [imperfective, stem], hokorippokaro [imperfective, stem], ほこりっぽく [continuative, stem], hokorippoku [continuative, stem], ほこりっぽい [stem, terminative], hokorippoi [stem, terminative], ほこりっぽい [attributive, stem], hokorippoi [attributive, stem], ほこりっぽけれ [hypothetical, stem], hokorippokere [hypothetical, stem], ほこりっぽかれ [imperative, stem], hokorippokare [imperative, stem], ほこりっぽくない [informal, negative], hokorippoku nai [informal, negative], ほこりっぽかった [informal, past], hokorippokatta [informal, past], ほこりっぽくなかった [informal, negative, past], hokorippoku nakatta [informal, negative, past], ほこりっぽいです [formal], hokorippoi desu [formal], ほこりっぽくないです [formal, negative], hokorippoku nai desu [formal, negative], ほこりっぽかったです [formal, past], hokorippokatta desu [formal, past], ほこりっぽくなかったです [formal, negative, past], hokorippoku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], ほこりっぽくて [conjunctive], hokorippokute [conjunctive], ほこりっぽければ [conditional], hokorippokereba [conditional], ほこりっぽかったら [conditional, past], hokorippokattara [conditional, past], ほこりっぽかろう [volitional], hokorippokarō [volitional], ほこりっぽく [adverbial], hokorippoku [adverbial], ほこりっぽさ [noun-from-adj], hokoripposa [noun-from-adj]
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{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "埃",
        "2": "ほこり",
        "3": "っぽい",
        "4": "-っぽい",
        "t1": "",
        "t2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "埃(ほこり) (hokori) + っぽい (-ppoi)",
      "name": "ja-compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From 埃(ほこり) (hokori) + っぽい (-ppoi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽく",
      "roman": "hokorippoku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokoripposa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "ほこりっぽい • (hokorippoi) -i (adverbial ほこりっぽく (hokorippoku))",
      "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": "ほこりっぽ",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms suffixed with っぽい",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dusty"
      ],
      "id": "en-ほこりっぽい-ja-adj-mYXCAteq",
      "links": [
        [
          "dusty",
          "dusty"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ほこりっぽい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ho̞ko̞ɾʲip̚po̞i]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ほこりっぽい"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "埃",
        "2": "ほこり",
        "3": "っぽい",
        "4": "-っぽい",
        "t1": "",
        "t2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "埃(ほこり) (hokori) + っぽい (-ppoi)",
      "name": "ja-compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From 埃(ほこり) (hokori) + っぽい (-ppoi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽく",
      "roman": "hokorippoku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoi desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippokarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokorippoku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ほこりっぽさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hokoripposa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "ほこりっぽい • (hokorippoi) -i (adverbial ほこりっぽく (hokorippoku))",
      "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": "ほこりっぽ",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese adjectives",
        "Japanese compound terms",
        "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 suffixed with っぽい",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese い-i adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dusty"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dusty",
          "dusty"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ほこりっぽい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ho̞ko̞ɾʲip̚po̞i]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ほこりっぽい"
}

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