JLPT N1 · い-adjective

安っぽい (yasuppoi)

安っぽい (やすっぽい, yasuppoi) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “cheap-looking; tawdry”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
やすっぽい
Romaji
yasuppoi
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant · い-adjective

Example sentences

彼女の服はとても安っぽい生地でできていた。
Her dress was made of very cheap material.

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

Conjugation of 安っぽい

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present安っぽいやすっぽい yasuppoi
Negative安っぽくないやすっぽくない yasuppokunai
Past安っぽかったやすっぽかった yasuppokatta
Negative past安っぽくなかったやすっぽくなかった yasuppokunakatta
Te-form安っぽくてやすっぽくて yasuppokute
Adverb (~ku)安っぽくやすっぽく yasuppoku
Conditional (~ba)安っぽければやすっぽければ yasuppokereba

Kanji in 安っぽい

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 安っぽい.

Source: JMdict entry 1153680 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.