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涙ぐましい (なみだぐましい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› Freq. Frequency Top 100,000 Conjugation 涙ぐましい · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 涙なみだ ぐましい 涙なみだ ぐましくない Polite 涙なみだ ぐましいです 涙なみだ ぐましくないです also 涙なみだ ぐましくありません Past polite 涙なみだ ぐましかったです 涙なみだ ぐましくなかったです also 涙なみだ ぐましくありませんでした Past 涙なみだ ぐましかった 涙なみだ ぐましくなかった Te-form 涙なみだ ぐましくて 涙なみだ ぐましくなくて Adverbial 涙なみだ ぐましく Conditional 涙なみだ ぐましければ 涙なみだ ぐましくなければ Tara conditional 涙なみだ ぐましかったら 涙なみだ ぐましくなかったら
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実み
を
結むす
ん
だ
。
His touching efforts bore fruit.
I was moved by the volunteers' heart-wrenching work in the disaster area.
Usage patterns 涙なみだ ぐましい 努ど 力りょく a touching, painstaking effort
He kept up a heart-wrenching effort to make his dream come true.
涙なみだ ぐましいほど 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something to such a touching, earnest degree
She worked for her family with a heart-wrenching dedication.
〈 人ひと 〉 の 涙なみだ ぐましい 姿すがた the touching sight of someone's struggle
The audience was moved by the athletes' heart-wrenching struggle.
Related words 感動的 is a general word for anything moving or impressive, while 涙ぐましい specifically describes earnest effort or hardship that brings one to tears.
痛々しい focuses on how pitiful or painful a sight is, while 涙ぐましい emphasizes being moved to tears by someone's earnest struggle.
Etymology Compound of 涙 (なみだ, 'tears') + ぐましい, a suffix derived from くましい (from classical くまし, meaning 'to be full of' or 'to be deeply imbued with'). Literally 'tear-filled', describing something that moves one to tears.
