Illustration: At a community-center activity table, one participant holds an oddly shaped teapot behind a small tabletop screen and speaks animatedly to a partner. The teapot has a squat round body, an exceptionally long spout, and a tiny lid.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

形けい容よう

keiyou

to describe in words

Example sentences

その王女おうじょは形容けいようできないほど美うつくしかった。
The princess was beautiful beyond description.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
それにしても男おとこに綺麗きれいって形容けいようはやめろよな～。
In any case please stop using "pretty" when describing a man.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
前方後円墳ぜんぽうこうえんふんの形状けいじょうは、古ふるくはヒョウタン形がたなどとも形容けいようされていた。
In ancient times, keyhole-shaped tumuli were described as being gourd-shaped.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 形容

形shape; formOnケイ・ギョウKunかた・かたち・なり
容contain; formOnヨウKunいれる

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