非ひ道どう

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Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

na-adjective, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', noun

Describes actions, treatment, or conditions that are morally wrong, cruel, or lacking humanity. Often used in strong negative judgments.

彼かれの非ひ道どうな行おこないに怒いかりを感かんじた。
I felt anger at his unjust actions.
非ひ道どうな扱あつかいを受うけたと訴うったえた。
They complained that they had been treated inhumanely.

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Usage patterns

非ひ道どうな〈事こと〉an unjust/inhuman act or deed
彼かれは非ひ道どうな行こう為いを繰くり返かえした。
He repeated his inhuman acts.
〈人ひと〉に非ひ道どうな仕し打うちをするto treat someone cruelly/unjustly
その組そ織しきは捕ほ虜りょに非ひ道どうな仕し打うちをした。
The organization treated the prisoners cruelly.
非ひ道どうの限かぎりを尽つくすto commit every kind of atrocity
独どく裁さい者しゃは非ひ道どうの限かぎりを尽つくした。
The dictator committed every kind of atrocity.

Kanji

非un-, mistake, negative
道road-way, street, district

Related words· 6

残ざん酷こくN1
残酷 highlights cruelty and brutality in an act, while 非道 stresses its moral wrongness and lack of humanity.
不ふ当とうN1
不当 describes something unjust in a legal or procedural sense, whereas 非道 carries stronger moral condemnation.
非ひ情じょう
非情 focuses on a cold, unfeeling attitude, while 非道 focuses on the immorality of the act itself.
無む慈じ悲ひ
無慈悲 describes a lack of mercy or compassion, while 非道 more broadly condemns an act as morally outrageous.

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残ざん虐ぎゃく
非道 stresses wickedness and moral injustice, whereas 残虐 focuses on the violent, savage nature of the act itself.
蛮ばん行こう
非道 focuses on the immorality or inhumanity of an act, while 蛮行 focuses on its brutal, barbaric violence.

Opposites

正せい当とうN1
正当 means 'legitimate' or 'proper,' the opposite of 非道's sense of being unjust and inhuman.

Word family· 9

大たい逆ぎゃく非ひ道どう
heinous; treacherous; atrocious
強ごう欲よく非ひ道どう
abnormally greedy and cruel; rapacious and inhuman
悪あく逆ぎゃく非ひ道どう
heinous; atrocious; inhuman
暴ぼう虐ぎゃく非ひ道どう
tyrannical and atrocious; violent and cruel
極ごく悪あく非ひ道どう
inhuman; heinous; atrocious

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残ざん忍にん非ひ道どう
cruel and inhuman; brutal; merciless
残ざん虐ぎゃく非ひ道どう
inhumanity; atrocity; cruel and outrageous
残ざん酷こく非ひ道どう
inhumanity; atrocity; abominable cruelty
無む理り非ひ道どう
unreasonable and unjust; unconscionable

Written forms

非ひ道どうUsage97%
Standard kanji spelling; the word is normally written in kanji.
ひどうUsage3%

Etymology

Compound of 非 (hi, 'not, un-') and 道 (dō, 'way, path, morality'), literally 'not the way' or 'against the moral path'. The word has been used in Japanese to denote extreme injustice or inhumanity.