Illustration: On a community room floor, a child has dramatically launched a spinning top, but it has already toppled onto its side beside the still-outstretched launching hand. Two friends are only halfway into their crouching positions, their eager expressions changing to blank surprise.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

あっけない

akkenai

over too soon, abrupt

Example sentences

休暇きゅうかはいつもあっけなく終おわる。
The holidays always end all too soon.
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彼かれはあっけなく負まけてしまった。
He was beaten too easily.
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彼女かのじょはいよいよとなったら，あっけなく降参こうさんした。
When it came to the crunch she just gave in.
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