JLPT N3 · い-adjective

恐ろしい (osoroshii)

恐ろしい (おそろしい, osoroshii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “terrible; dreadful”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
おそろしい
Romaji
osoroshii
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. terrible; dreadful; terrifying; frightening · い-adjective
  2. surprising; startling; tremendous; amazing · い-adjective · often as 恐ろしく

Example sentences

その嵐の天候は恐ろしかった。
The stormy weather was dreadful.

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

Conjugation of 恐ろしい

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present恐ろしいおそろしい osoroshii
Negative恐ろしくないおそろしくない osoroshikunai
Past恐ろしかったおそろしかった osoroshikatta
Negative past恐ろしくなかったおそろしくなかった osoroshikunakatta
Te-form恐ろしくておそろしくて osoroshikute
Adverb (~ku)恐ろしくおそろしく osoroshiku
Conditional (~ba)恐ろしければおそろしければ osoroshikereba

Kanji in 恐ろしい

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 恐ろしい.

Source: JMdict entry 1236690 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.