I Love Kanji猛烈 (mouretsu)
猛烈 (もうれつ, mouretsu) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “fierce; intense”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- もうれつ
- Romaji
- mouretsu
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- fierce; intense; severe; violent; strong · な-adjective
- very; extremely; terribly; totally · adverb · colloquial
Example sentences
警官がやってくるのを見ると彼は猛烈に走り出した。
When he saw a policeman coming, he began to run like anything.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 猛烈
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 猛烈だ | もうれつだ mouretsuda |
| Present (polite) | 猛烈です | もうれつです mouretsudesu |
| Negative | 猛烈じゃない | もうれつじゃない mouretsujanai |
| Past | 猛烈だった | もうれつだった mouretsudatta |
| Negative past | 猛烈じゃなかった | もうれつじゃなかった mouretsujanakatta |
| Te-form | 猛烈で | もうれつで mouretsude |
| Before a noun | 猛烈な | もうれつな mouretsuna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 猛烈に | もうれつに mouretsuni |
Kanji in 猛烈
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 猛烈.
Source: JMdict entry 1534100 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.