Illustration: A gardener pulls a small handcart along an uneven allotment path full of protruding stones, hardened ridges, and shallow hollows. One wheel rides high over a lump while the other drops into a rut, leaving the cart visibly tilted.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

でこぼこ

dekoboko

bumpy, uneven

Example sentences

バスはでこぼこ道みちを走はしりながらガタガタと音おとを立たてた。
The bus rattled as it drove along the bumpy road.
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月つきの表面ひょうめんはでこぼこだ。
The surface of the moon is irregular.
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道みちはとてもでこぼこだった。
The road was very rough.
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