Meaning
薄暗い (うすぐらい, usugurai) is a JLPT N2 adjective meaning “dim,gloomy”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
外はもう薄暗くなりましたよ。
It is already getting dark outside.
部屋はまだ薄暗い。
It is still semi-dark in the room.
薄暗い光の中で彼の顔を見た。
I saw his face in the dim light.
こんな薄暗い部屋では仕事にならない。
It's impossible to work in a room this dim.
薄暗い明かりで本を読んではいけない。
You shouldn't read in such poor light.
こんな薄暗い部屋で本を読んではいけない。
You shouldn't read a book in a room this dim.
彼女は街灯の薄暗い光の下で私を待っていた。
She was waiting for me under the gloomy light of the streetlamp.
彼はろうそくの薄暗い明かりでその手紙を読んだ.
He read the letter by the dim light of a candle.
薄暗い照明の中で、彼女の顔がはっきり見えなかった。
Her face was not clear in the poor light.
私はある時、初めて識り合ひになつた画家に伴はれて、深夜そのアトリエにはひつたことがある。屋根裏の薄暗い部屋である。
One time, I went to the atelier of a painter I had just met in the middle of the night. It was a dark room in an attic.
私はある時、初めて知り合いになった画家に伴われて、深夜そのアトリエにはいったことがある。屋根裏の薄暗い部屋である。
One time, I went to the atelier of a painter I had just met in the middle of the night. It was a dark room in an attic.
何時間も母親の膝の上で過ごし、母の頬を伝う涙を無邪気な同情をこめて見つめ、物静かに薄暗い部屋の隅に身を移し、しくしくと泣きながら眠りにつく。
Hour after hour had he sat on his mother's knee, and with childish sympathy watched the tears that stole down her face, and then crept quietly away into some dark corner, and sobbed himself to sleep.