後うしろ暗ぐらい

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後ろ暗い · i-adjective

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	後うしろ暗ぐらい	後うしろ暗ぐらくない
Polite	後うしろ暗ぐらいです	後うしろ暗ぐらくないですalso 後うしろ暗ぐらくありません
Past polite	後うしろ暗ぐらかったです	後うしろ暗ぐらくなかったですalso 後うしろ暗ぐらくありませんでした
Past	後うしろ暗ぐらかった	後うしろ暗ぐらくなかった
Te-form	後うしろ暗ぐらくて	後うしろ暗ぐらくなくて
Adverbial	後うしろ暗ぐらく
Conditional	後うしろ暗ぐらければ	後うしろ暗ぐらくなければ
Tara conditional	後うしろ暗ぐらかったら	後うしろ暗ぐらくなかったら

Meanings

i-adjective

shady; underhanded; questionable

Describes a person, action, or situation that feels morally dubious, secretive, or not entirely honest. Often implies a sense of guilt or something to hide.

彼かれの後うしろ暗ぐらい過か去こが明あかるみに出でた。
His shady past came to light.
後うしろ暗ぐらい取とり引ひきに関かかわっているらしい。
He seems to be involved in underhanded dealings.

Kanji

後behind, back, later
暗darkness, disappear, shade

Related words

怪あやしい
怪しい is broader, covering suspicious, dubious, or unreliable things, while 後ろ暗い specifically implies a hidden, guilty, or morally questionable aspect.
後うしろめたい
後ろめたい focuses on a personal feeling of guilt or unease about one's own actions, whereas 後ろ暗い can describe both the feeling and the objective shadiness of a situation.

Built from

後うしろ+暗くらい

Written forms

後うしろ暗ぐらいUsage81%
Standard kanji spelling.
後うしろぐらいUsage10%
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; less common but still encountered.
うしろぐらいUsage10%
うしろ暗ぐらい
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; less common but still encountered.

Etymology

Compound of 後ろ (ushiro, 'behind') + 暗い (kurai, 'dark'), literally 'dark behind'. The figurative meaning of shadiness or guilt likely developed from the image of something hidden in the dark behind one's back.