じみる

Also written 染みる

Meanings

1. Suffix, Ichidan verb to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to look like ...; to be like ... (after a noun; oft. with neg. nuance; oft. adjectivally as じみた...)
2. to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...; to be dirtied with ... (after a noun; oft. adjectivally as じみた...)

Example sentences

• 気違いじみた愚かな世俗の競争から逃れたい。
  I want to get away from the rat race.
• もう子供じみたことはやめてもいい頃だ。
  It is time you left off your childish ways.
• ピーターは子供じみた娘たちにほとほとうんざりして、真に大人の女性に会いたいと思った。
  Peter was fed up with childish girls and wanted to meet a really mature woman.
• それは子供じみた行いです。
  It is a childish act.
• 子供じみたまねはよしなさい。
  Don't be so childish.

Words containing じみる

• 垢じみる (あかじみる) to become dirty
• 気違いじみる (きちがいじみる) to look mad
• 所帯じみる (しょたいじみる) to become domesticated

And 1 more.

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