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角角しい (かどかどしい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
i-adjective
angular ; stiff ; intractable
Describes a person's manner or personality as rigid, unyielding, and lacking warmth or flexibility. Often used for someone who is difficult to deal with because of their stubborn or prickly attitude.
When he was a newcomer he had a prickly side, but now he has mellowed considerably.
Written forms 角かど 角かど しい
角かど 々かど しい
Variant using the iteration mark 々.
Similar words 角かど がある Literally 'has corners', used for a person who is blunt or harsh, but less formal and more colloquial than 角角しい.
とげとげしい Means 'prickly' or 'sharp-tongued', focusing on verbal harshness rather than overall rigidity.
Etymology Derived from the noun 角 (かど, 'corner, angle') reduplicated and combined with the adjectival suffix しい, literally meaning 'full of corners'. The figurative sense of a rigid or unyielding personality developed from the physical image of sharp angles.
