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 9
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.
旅費が2 万 円では 心細い。
It's discouraging that the travel expenses add up to 20,000 yen.
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.
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.
和服を 着て 椅子に 腰をかけると、 何となく 心細い。
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.
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. 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.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.