屈

Meaning

屈 centers on giving way under pressure: physically bending or crouching, or mentally yielding, flinching, or submitting to a force or authority.

• 退屈たいくつ
  N3

  tedious; boring; dull; uninteresting; tiresome; monotonous

• 理屈りくつ
  N1

  theory; reason; logic

• 屈指くっし

  leading; foremost; preeminent; outstanding; one of the best

• 屈辱くつじょく

  disgrace; humiliation

• 窮屈きゅうくつ
  N1

  narrow; tight; cramped

• 屈強くっきょう

  robust; brawny; muscular; strong; sturdy

• 屈服くっぷく

  yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing

• 屈折くっせつ
  N1

  bending; curving; twisting; turning; winding

• 不屈ふくつ

  persistence; fortitude; indomitability

• 屈するくっする

  to yield; to give in; to be daunted; to shrink

• 卑屈ひくつ

  servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling; spineless

• 屁理屈へりくつ

  sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake

• 屈曲くっきょく

  crookedness; bending; indentation; curvature; flexion

• 偏屈へんくつ

  narrow-minded; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; unreasonable; warped; bigoted; eccentric

• 鬱屈うっくつ

  gloomy

• 屈すくっす

  to yield; to give in; to be daunted; to shrink

• 屈託くったく

  worry; care; concern

• 屈むかがむ

  to stoop; to lean over; to bend forward

• 屈伸くっしん

  bending and stretching; flexing and extending

• 理屈っぽいりくつっぽい

  argumentative

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