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見苦しい (みぐるしい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N2 › Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation 見苦しい · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 見み 苦ぐる しい 見み 苦ぐる しくない Polite 見み 苦ぐる しいです 見み 苦ぐる しくないです also 見み 苦ぐる しくありません Past polite 見み 苦ぐる しかったです 見み 苦ぐる しくなかったです also 見み 苦ぐる しくありませんでした Past 見み 苦ぐる しかった 見み 苦ぐる しくなかった Te-form 見み 苦ぐる しくて 見み 苦ぐる しくなくて Adverbial 見み 苦ぐる しく Conditional 見み 苦ぐる しければ 見み 苦ぐる しくなければ Tara conditional 見み 苦ぐる しかったら 見み 苦ぐる しくなかったら
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His room was so messy it was unsightly.
You should stop that disgraceful behavior.
Usage patterns 見み 苦ぐる しい 姿すがた an unsightly/shameful appearance
I embarrassed myself by collapsing drunk in front of others.
見み 苦ぐる しい 言い い 訳わけ a pathetic/shameful excuse
He made pathetic excuses instead of apologizing.
見苦みぐる しい 真似まね shameful/undignified behavior
Please stop behaving so shamefully in public.
見み 苦ぐる しい 争あらそ い an unseemly/undignified quarrel
An unseemly dispute over the inheritance continues.
Related words 見っともない is a colloquial word for looking shameful in front of others, while 見苦しい can also describe purely visual unpleasantness in a more formal register.
醜い is a stronger, more direct word for physical or moral ugliness, whereas 見苦しい softens this into 'unpleasant to look at' or 'improper'.
汚らしい focuses on looking dirty or unkempt, while 見苦しい more broadly covers shameful behavior as well as unsightly appearance.
見苦しい describes something unsightly or shabby, while 醜悪 is heavier and can condemn moral disgrace as well as appearance.
Don't confuse with 見にくい simply means 'hard to see' (e.g. small text), while 見苦しい means 'unsightly or shameful to look at'; the two are easily mixed up because of their similar sound and shared kanji.
見苦しい criticizes an unsightly or disgraceful appearance/behavior in a moral or social sense, whereas 見すぼらしい specifically points to a poor, worn-out look caused by poverty or neglect.
Written forms 見み 苦ぐる しい Usage 98%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common and recommended form.
みぐるしい Usage 2%
Etymology Compound of 見 (mi, 'seeing') + 苦しい (kurushii, 'painful'). Literally 'painful to look at', which developed into the modern sense of 'unsightly' or 'shameful'.
