Meaning
意気地 (いくじ, ikuji) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “spirit, mettle, backbone, guts”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 5
そんな意気地の無いことでどうするのだ
What is the point of doing such cowardly things?
彼は意気地なしだ。
He's a coward.
いざとなると,あの男は意気地なしだ.
When it comes to the crunch [In a crisis], he has no backbone.
あの男はからきし意気地(いくじ)がない.
He's spineless [gutless, yellow].
喜三郎の意見に悩む辰五郎は、女房のお仲に意気地がないから離縁すると言い出される。
Kisaboro's words weighed heavily on Tatsugoro's mind; Tatsugoro looked so indecisive that his wife Onaka pronounced a divorce between them.