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JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ毛もう

fumou

fruitless, unproductive

Example sentences

  1. 不毛ふもうな論争ろんそう

    a barren controversy

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 第二次世界大戦下だいにじせかいたいせんか、言論統制げんろんとうせいの厳きびしい、文学ぶんがく不毛ふもうと呼よばれた時代じだいにおいて、太宰だざいは多おおくの作品さくひんを発表はっぴょうし続つづけた。

    During World War II, amid strict censorship, Dazai continued to publish many works in a period described as barren for literature.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 同おなじ話はなしを何度なんども繰くり返かえすのは不毛ふもうだ。

    Repeating the same discussion over and over is unproductive.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 不毛

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 毛fur; hairOnモウKunけ

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