JLPT N1 · い-adjective

物足りない (monotarinai)

物足りない (ものたりない, monotarinai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “unsatisfied; unsatisfactory”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ものたりない
Romaji
monotarinai
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. unsatisfied; unsatisfactory; insufficient in some way; lacking something · い-adjective

Example sentences

このドラマは単純な勧善懲悪もので、今一つ深みに欠けて物足りない。
This drama is missing something. All it is is a simple cautionary tale with no real depth.

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

Conjugation of 物足りない

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present物足りないものたりない monotarinai
Negative物足りなくないものたりなくない monotarinakunai
Past物足りなかったものたりなかった monotarinakatta
Negative past物足りなくなかったものたりなくなかった monotarinakunakatta
Te-form物足りなくてものたりなくて monotarinakute
Adverb (~ku)物足りなくものたりなく monotarinaku
Conditional (~ba)物足りなければものたりなければ monotarinakereba

Kanji in 物足りない

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 物足りない.

Source: JMdict entry 1502650 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.