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表層形
重苦し
オモクルシ
形容詞

重苦し (オモクルシ)

Omokurushi · おもくるし — heavy (feeling, etc.), gloomy (weather, etc.), oppressive (atmosphere, etc.), stifling, strained

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重苦し in rōmaji: omokurushi.

形容詞 一般 * *
📝 重苦しい 🔤 形容詞 📐 語幹-一般
Updated: 2026年9月28日
📖 Grammar Information
表層形 (Surface)
重苦し
見出し語 (Lemma)
重苦しい
読み (Reading)
オモクルシ
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)
重苦し
読み・基本形
オモクルシー
表記・基本形
重苦しい
見出し語の読み
オモクルシイ
💡 English Meaning

重苦し means “heavy (feeling, etc.), gloomy (weather, etc.), oppressive (atmosphere, etc.), stifling, strained” — full definition & examples →

⭐ Dictionary Form

重苦しい (オモクルシー) — main entry →

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Reading & Info
オモクルシ
Lemma: 重苦しい
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
丁寧形 (Polite)
重苦しいです
否定形 (Negative)
重苦しくない
過去形 (Past)
重苦しかった
て形 (Te-form)
重苦しくて
副詞形 (Adverbial)
重苦しく
仮定形 (Conditional)
重苦しければ
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The surface form (重苦し) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (重苦しい) 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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