JLPT N2 · い-adjective

みっともない (mittomonai)

みっともない is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “shameful; disgraceful”. It is usually written in kana. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
みっともない
Romaji
mittomonai
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. shameful; disgraceful; unsightly; indecent; unseemly · い-adjective · usually written in kana

Example sentences

人前でああいうみっともないことはするな。
Don't do such a shameful thing in public.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of みっともない

い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Presentみっともないみっともない mittomonai
Negativeみっともなくないみっともなくない mittomonakunai
Pastみっともなかったみっともなかった mittomonakatta
Negative pastみっともなくなかったみっともなくなかった mittomonakunakatta
Te-formみっともなくてみっともなくて mittomonakute
Adverb (~ku)みっともなくみっともなく mittomonaku
Conditional (~ba)みっともなければみっともなければ mittomonakereba

Source: JMdict entry 1259250 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.