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表層形
むうご
ムーゴ
形容詞

むうご (ムーゴ)

Muugo · むーご — cruel, merciless, pitiless, brutal, atrocious, inhuman; tragic, horrible, terrible, dreadful, miserable, ugly, horrifying

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むうご in rōmaji: muugo, also spelled mugo.

形容詞 一般 * *
📝 惨い 🔤 形容詞 📐 語幹-一般
Updated: 2026年8月25日
📖 Grammar Information
表層形 (Surface)
むうご
見出し語 (Lemma)
惨い
読み (Reading)
ムーゴ
品詞 (POS)
形容詞・一般・*・*
活用型 (Conj. Type)
形容詞
活用形 (Conj. Form)
語幹-一般
表記 (Orthography)
むうご
読み・基本形
ムーゴイ
表記・基本形
むうごい
見出し語の読み
ムゴイ
💡 English Meaning

むうご means “cruel, merciless, pitiless, brutal, atrocious, inhuman; tragic, horrible, terrible, dreadful, miserable, ugly, horrifying” — full definition & examples →

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むうごい (ムーゴイ) — main entry →

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Reading & Info
ムーゴ
Lemma: 惨い
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
丁寧形 (Polite)
惨いです
否定形 (Negative)
惨くない
過去形 (Past)
惨かった
て形 (Te-form)
惨くて
副詞形 (Adverbial)
惨く
仮定形 (Conditional)
惨ければ
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What is the difference between surface form and lemma? ▼
The surface form (むうご) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (惨い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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The reading shows the pronunciation in hiragana or katakana as recorded by UniDic. For kanji entries this is the standard reading of this specific surface form — which may differ from other readings of the same kanji.
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