also: きび
Most often encountered in evaluative expressions such as 気味が悪い, meaning that something feels unpleasant, eerie, or unsettling. The fixed phrase いい気味 has its own idiomatic force, roughly 'serves you right.'
See also: いい気味 (いいきみ)
夜中にドアが少し開いていて、気味が悪かった。
The door was slightly open in the middle of the night, and it felt creepy.
tendency; propensity; hint of
Only with reading きみ
Noun use pronounced きみ, often in patterns like の気味がある to describe a slight tendency, trace, or touch of something. In many everyday compounds, the related suffix is pronounced ぎみ.
See also: 気味 (ぎみ)
I have a touch of a cold, so I'll go home early today.
There is a slight tendency toward bragging in what he says.
I feel like I'm coming down with a cold these days.
slight cold; touch of a cold
reek of desperation; feeling of desperation
half-joking; somewhat joking; in a jocular vein
a bit overweight; tending toward plumpness
somewhat puzzled; a bit baffled
somewhat flustered; looking a bit dismayed
somewhat excited; a bit agitated
tending to anemia; somewhat anemic
overheated; hyper-; overearnest
somewhat reserved; a bit shy; tending to hold back