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極悪人 (ごくあくにん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

極ごく悪あく人にん

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Meanings

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noun

utter villain; atrocious fiend; devil

A strong, dramatic term for a person of extreme evil; often used in fiction, news, or emphatic speech.

彼かれは極ごく悪あく人にんとして歴れき史しに名なを残のこした。
He went down in history as an utter villain.
その映えい画がの極ごく悪

あく

人にん

は

、

観かん

客きゃく

に

強つよ

い

印いん

象しょう

を

与あた

え

た

。

The atrocious fiend in that movie left a strong impression on the audience.

Kanji

極extreme, pole, extremely
悪bad, vice, rascal
人person

Similar words

悪あく人にん
悪人 is a general term for a bad person or villain, while 極悪人 emphasizes extreme, irredeemable evil.
極ごく悪あく
極悪 is a na-adjective or noun meaning 'heinous' or 'atrocious'; 極悪人 is the person who embodies that quality.

Etymology

Compound of 極 (ごく, 'extremely') + 悪人 (あくにん, 'bad person'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows a common pattern of intensifying prefix + noun.