気き難むずかしい

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気難しい · i-adjective

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	気き難むずかしい	気き難むずかしくない
Polite	気き難むずかしいです	気き難むずかしくないですalso 気き難むずかしくありません
Past polite	気き難むずかしかったです	気き難むずかしくなかったですalso 気き難むずかしくありませんでした
Past	気き難むずかしかった	気き難むずかしくなかった
Te-form	気き難むずかしくて	気き難むずかしくなくて
Adverbial	気き難むずかしく
Conditional	気き難むずかしければ	気き難むずかしくなければ
Tara conditional	気き難むずかしかったら	気き難むずかしくなかったら

Meanings

Describes a person who is demanding, picky, or difficult to satisfy; often used for customers, teachers, bosses, or people with exacting standards.

Describes someone being irritable, moody, or unpleasant to deal with, especially as a temperament or temporary mood.

気き難むずかしい顔かおをするto have/make a sullen or grumpy expression
父ちちは気き難むずかしい顔かおをしてテレビを見みていた。
My father was watching TV with a grumpy expression.
気き難むずかしい〈人ひと〉a fussy, hard-to-please person (e.g. customer, boss)
彼かれは気き難むずかしい客きゃくで、なかなか商しょう品ひんを決きめてくれない。
He's a fussy customer who takes forever to decide on a product.
気き難むずかしくなるto become irritable or hard to please
年としを取とるにつれて、祖そ父ふは気き難むずかしくなった。
As he got older, my grandfather became more irritable.

不ふ機き嫌げんN3sense 2
不機嫌 describes being in a bad mood at the moment, while 気難しい can describe a lasting personality trait of being fussy or hard to please, not just a temporary mood.
神しん経けい質しつ sense 1
神経質 means nervous or overly sensitive to small details, whereas 気難しい focuses on being hard to satisfy or ill-tempered rather than anxious.
頑がん固こN2sense 1
頑固 means stubborn and unwilling to change one's mind, while 気難しい implies being fussy, picky, or moody rather than simply inflexible.
うるさいN5
気難しい describes someone hard to please or moody in general, while うるさい in this sense focuses on being picky about specific details.
やかましいN3
気難しい describes a person who is generally hard to please or bad-tempered, while 喧しい (やかましい) here specifically means picky about particular details.

気きさくN1sense 1
気さく describes someone friendly, approachable, and easygoing, the opposite of 気難しい, who is fussy and hard to please.

難むずかしいN5
難しい means difficult in a general sense, like a hard problem, whereas 気難しい specifically describes a person's fussy or bad-tempered nature.

気き難むずかしいUsage56%
Standard kanji spelling; this form and reading is high priority.
気きむずかしいUsage44%
Mixed-kana spelling given; useful when the writer avoids the kanji 難.

A transparent compound of 気, referring to mood or temperament, and 難しい, 'difficult'; literally, a difficult temperament or difficult mood.