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生易しい (なまやさしい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Freq. Frequency Top 100,000 Conjugation Meanings 1
i-adjective
simple ; easy ; not difficult
Often used in negative expressions like 生易しいことではない to emphasize that something is far from easy or trivial. Carries a nuance of 'not something to be taken lightly'.
の
実じつ
力りょく
は
生なま
易やさ
しい
もの
で
は
なかっ
た
。
His ability was not something to be taken lightly.
Written forms 生なま 易やさ しい Usage 33%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
生なま やさしい Usage 39%
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; less common but still encountered.
なまやさしい Usage 28%
Similar words 易やさ しい 易しい simply means 'easy' or 'simple'. 生易しい adds the prefix 生 (なま), which here intensifies the meaning to 'trivial' or 'easy in a dismissive sense', and is almost always used in negative contexts.
簡かん 単たん 簡単 is a more common and neutral word for 'easy' or 'simple'. 生易しい is stronger and more emphatic, often implying that something is not just easy but almost negligibly so.
Etymology Compound of 生 (なま, 'raw, half-baked') and 易しい (やさしい, 'easy'). The prefix 生 adds a sense of 'half-hearted' or 'insufficient', giving the whole word the meaning 'too easy to be taken seriously'.
