表層形
グロえ
グレー
形容詞
グロえ (グレー)
Guree · ぐれー — grotesque, disgusting, gross
Other ways to say “grotesque” in Japanese →
グロえ in rōmaji: guree.
形容詞
一般
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📝 グロい 🔤 形容詞 📐 終止形-一般
Updated: 2026年9月30日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
グロえ
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|---|---|
| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
グロい
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| 読み (Reading) |
グレー
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| 品詞 (POS) |
形容詞・一般・*・*
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| 活用型 (Conj. Type) |
形容詞
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| 活用形 (Conj. Form) |
終止形-一般
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| 表記 (Orthography) |
グロえ
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| 読み・基本形 |
グロイ
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| 表記・基本形 |
グロい
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| 見出し語の読み |
グロイ
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How it's used
Casual, often in online slang or among younger speakers, to describe something disturbing or gross.
この動画、グロえわ。
Kono douga, guro e wa.
This video is gross.
グロえ虫を見た。
Guro e mushi o mita.
I saw a disgusting bug.
⚖️ Often confused with 'グロい' (guroi), which is the more standard adjective; 'グロえ' is a slang variant.
💡 English Meaning
グロえ means “grotesque, disgusting, gross” — full definition & examples →
⭐ Dictionary Form
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Reading & Info
グレー
Lemma: グロい
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
| 丁寧形 (Polite) |
グロいです
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| 否定形 (Negative) |
グロくない
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| 過去形 (Past) |
グロかった
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| て形 (Te-form) |
グロくて
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| 副詞形 (Adverbial) |
グロく
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| 仮定形 (Conditional) |
グロければ
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形容詞 (i-adjectives) end in い and conjugate directly. They can act as predicates or modify nouns directly without a particle.
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The surface form (グロえ) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (グロい) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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