苦しい

くるしい

Meanings

  1. い-adjective painful; difficult; tough; hard
  2. distressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position)
  3. straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling
  4. strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.); lame (e.g. excuse); forced (e.g. smile); far-fetched
  5. Suffix, い-adjective hard to do; unpleasant (after -masu stem of verb; often ぐるしい) See also: 寝苦しい (ねぐるしい). See also: 見苦しい (みぐるしい).

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