JLPT N2 · い-adjective

醜い (minikui)

醜い (みにくい, minikui) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “ugly; unattractive”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: みにくい
Romaji: minikui
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

ugly; unattractive; bad-looking · い-adjective
unsightly; unseemly; disgraceful; shameful; dishonorable · い-adjective

Example sentences

「美しい」とか「醜い」といった言葉は相対的な用語である。

The words 'beautiful' and 'ugly' are relative terms.

Tatoeba #236160

オレの醜い部分がオレを引き裂く。

The ugly side of myself tears me up.

Tatoeba #227444

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

Conjugation of 醜い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	醜い	みにくい minikui
Negative	醜くない	みにくくない minikukunai
Past	醜かった	みにくかった minikukatta
Negative past	醜くなかった	みにくくなかった minikukunakatta
Te-form	醜くて	みにくくて minikukute
Adverb (~ku)	醜く	みにくく minikuku
Conditional (~ba)	醜ければ	みにくければ minikukereba

Kanji in 醜い

醜

ugly, unclean, shameシュウ・みにく.い・しこ · 17 strokes

Source: JMdict entry 1333810 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.