JLPT N3 · い-adjective

悔しい (kuyashii)

悔しい (くやしい, kuyashii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: くやしい
Romaji: kuyashii
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter · い-adjective

Example sentences

監督はチームをトーナメント優勝に今一歩という所までもっていったのに悔しいことだった。

It was annoying, as the manager took his team to a near-miss in the tournament.

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

Conjugation of 悔しい

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	悔しい	くやしい kuyashii
Negative	悔しくない	くやしくない kuyashikunai
Past	悔しかった	くやしかった kuyashikatta
Negative past	悔しくなかった	くやしくなかった kuyashikunakatta
Te-form	悔しくて	くやしくて kuyashikute
Adverb (~ku)	悔しく	くやしく kuyashiku
Conditional (~ba)	悔しければ	くやしければ kuyashikereba

Kanji in 悔しい

悔

repent, regretカイ・く.いる・く.やむ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 悔しい.

後悔こうかいregret悔やむくやむto mourn

Source: JMdict entry 1592350 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.