Illustration: A visitor pauses inside a cramped apartment sitting room, holding a cheerful little potted flower that suddenly seems out of place. The host sits hunched beside a low table, eyes lowered, offering neither greeting nor eye contact.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

陰いん気き

inki

gloomy, dismal

Example sentences

その家いえは見みかけがたいへん陰気いんきだった。
The house looked very dismal.
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彼女かのじょの目めつきは陰気いんきになった。
Her eyes darkened.
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雨あめが続つづいて、町全体まちぜんたいが陰気いんきな雰囲気ふんいきだ。
With all this rain, the whole town feels gloomy.
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Kanji in 陰気

陰shade; yinOnインKunかげ・かげる
気spirit; mindOnキ・ケKunいき・き

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