Illustration: A fierce squall strikes a residential street outside a small Japanese apartment building. Rain lashes diagonally across the entrance, a young roadside tree bends sharply, and water bursts upward where it hits the pavement.

JLPT N3i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

激はげしい

hageshii

intense, fierce

Example sentences

  1. 競争きょうそうは激はげしくなった。

    The competition has become fierce.

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  2. ここは交通こうつうが激はげしい。

    The traffic is heavy here.

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  3. 激はげしい雷鳴らいめいがした。

    There was a sharp peal of thunder.

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Kanji in 激

  • 激violent; get excitedOnゲキKunはげしい

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