JLPT N2 · い-adjective

憎らしい (nikurashii)

憎らしい (にくらしい, nikurashii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “odious; hateful”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: にくらしい
Romaji: nikurashii
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

odious; hateful; detestable; horrible · い-adjective
(speaking ironically) darling · い-adjective

Example sentences

彼はにくらしげに彼女をにらんだ。

He stared at her with hatred.

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

Conjugation of 憎らしい

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	憎らしい	にくらしい nikurashii
Negative	憎らしくない	にくらしくない nikurashikunai
Past	憎らしかった	にくらしかった nikurashikatta
Negative past	憎らしくなかった	にくらしくなかった nikurashikunakatta
Te-form	憎らしくて	にくらしくて nikurashikute
Adverb (~ku)	憎らしく	にくらしく nikurashiku
Conditional (~ba)	憎らしければ	にくらしければ nikurashikereba

Kanji in 憎らしい

憎

hate, detestゾウ・にく.む・にく.い · 14 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 憎らしい.

憎いにくいhateful憎むにくむto hate憎しみにくしみhatred

Source: JMdict entry 1403450 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.