ぼったい

suffix, i-adjective

appearing quite ...; looking very ...

Attaches to the stem of an adjective or the -masu stem of a verb to mean 'looking very ...' or 'seeming quite ...'. Used in casual, often slightly negative or emphatic descriptions. Common in dialects such as Kansai-ben, but also found in colloquial standard Japanese.

• あの店みせ、高たかそうで入はいりにくいけど、入はいってみたら意い外がいと安やすかった。でも、やっぱりちょっと高たかぼったい感かんじはする。

  That shop looked expensive and hard to enter, but when I went in it was surprisingly cheap. Still, it does feel a bit pricey-looking.

• 彼かれの説せつ明めいはいつも難なんしぼったくて、よくわからない。

  His explanations always sound really difficult and I don't quite get them.