Illustration: At a family's low dining table, a man puckers after tasting a mandarin segment and pushes the entire fruit basket away with a sweeping hand. Beside him, his daughter has peeled a different mandarin from the same basket and is happily eating it.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

一いち概がいに

ichigaini

categorically, without qualification

Usually used with a negative expression. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. そうですね。一概いちがいには言いえませんね。

    Yes, well, that depends.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 見みた目めとしては評価ひょうかを得えがたいが、こうした酒さけが一概いちがいに味あじもまずいとは限かぎらない。

    Although not highly appreciated for its appearance, such sake is not necessarily bad tasting in general.

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

  3. また他たにも様々さまざまな異説俗説いせつぞくせつがあり、現在げんざいどれが正解せいかいかは一概いちがいに言いえない状況じょうきょうにある。

    Also there are a variety of other theories however now we cannot say for sure which is correct.

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

Kanji in 一概

  • 一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
  • 概outline; conditionOnガイKunおおむね

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