切ない[せつない] (setsunai)

painful, trying, oppressive, suffocating

  • JLPT N1
  • Pitch 3
  • #7114 most frequent
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Meaning

切ない (せつない, setsunai) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “painful, trying, oppressive, suffocating”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 12

かれとの しあわせな 日々ひびを 思いおもいだすと せつなかった

It was painful to remember happier times with him.

元カノのこと思い出すと切なくなる。

Thinking about my ex-girlfriend makes me sad.

いつしか二人互いに響く 時に激しく 時に切なく

Before you know it, the two of us will only echo. Sometimes harshly. Sometimes painfully.

それはとても切ない。

That is very painful.