心細い (kokorobosoi)
helpless, forlorn, hopeless, unpromising, lonely, discouraging, disheartening
- JLPT N1
- adjective
- Pitch 5
- #16970 most frequent
Meaning
心細い (こころぼそい, kokorobosoi) is a JLPT N1 adjective meaning “helpless, forlorn, hopeless, unpromising, lonely, discouraging, disheartening”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
夜道の一人歩きは心細いね。
Walking alone at night makes one feel uneasy.
君がいないと心細い。
When you are away, I feel lost.
君がいないと心細い.
I feel helpless without you.
旅費が2万円では心細い。
It's discouraging that the travel expenses add up to 20,000 yen.
旅費が2万円では心細い.
Twenty thousand yen for our traveling expenses is discouragingly small.
せがれは行く末どうなる事やら心細い.
I have misgivings about my son's future.
一人で夜道を歩くのは、心細い限りだ。
Walking alone on a dark road at night feels terribly lonely.
子たちを失った教盛の身辺は心細いものになった。
Norimori, having lost his children, felt increasingly apprehensive and insecure.
和服を着て椅子に腰をかけると、何となく心細い。裾から風がはひるやうな気がする。
I feel somewhat uneasy when I sit on a chair with Japanese clothes. I feel like the wind is blowing in from the cuff of my trousers.
和服を着て椅子に腰をかけると、何となく心細い。裾から風がはいるような気がする。
I feel somewhat uneasy when I sit on a chair with Japanese clothes. I feel like the wind is blowing in from the cuff of my trousers.
彼が帰ってきたのは、ホームシックにかかったからではなく、ふところが心細くなったからである。
He came back not because he was homesick, but because he was running short of money.
ろくに伺候する者もなく、手元も不如意な心細い状態ながらも大君と中君を慈しみつつ都で暮らしていた。
Although no one paid their respects to him and he had been feeling apprehensive due to his being short of money, he was living in the capital while raising Oigimi and Naka no Kimi with much affection.