不気味

ぶきみ

Also written 無気味

Meanings

1. な-adjective weird; eerie; ominous; creepy; uncanny; unearthly

Kanji

• 不 un-. Read as ブ.
• 気 spirit
• 味 taste. Read as ミ.

Example sentences

• 近頃は地震が頻繁で不気味だ。
  The recent frequency of earthquakes makes us nervous.
• 急に笑い出さないでよ。不気味だから。
  Don't burst out laughing like that. It's creepy.
• 沈黙を不気味に感じるアメリカ人は多く、会話中に沈黙が起こると、それを話し始めなければならない合図だと考える傾向がある。
  Many Americans are uncomfortable with silence, and they tend to regard silence in a conversation as a signal that they need to start talking.
• 無気味な静けさが彼らの心胆を寒からしめた。
  The eerie silence struck terror into their hearts.
• とても不気味だと思った。
  I thought that was really weird.

Words containing 不気味

• 不気味の谷 (ぶきみのたに) uncanny valley (hypothesis about humanoid robots)

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