Illustration: In a community hall, one attendee sits through a presentation with their cheek completely flattened into a supporting palm. Their eyelids droop, their mouth stretches into an enormous yawn, and their free hand idly balances a tiny paper crane on a fingertip.

JLPT N1auxiliaryLevel estimated by Bebop

極きわまる

kiwamaru

extremely

Follows an adjectival noun, as in 退屈極まる. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 家庭かていでの生活せいかつは、今いま、考かんがえると、みじめ極きわまるものであった。

    When I think about it now, our family lived a very miserable life.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. その結果けっか、数多すうおおくの囚人しゅうじんが悲惨ひさん極きわまる強制労働きょうせいろうどうにて死亡しぼうした。

    As a result, many prisoners were forced to work in cruelly harsh conditions and died.

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

  3. 退屈たいくつ極きわまる会議かいぎがようやく終おわった。

    The extremely boring meeting finally ended.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 極

  • 極extreme; poleOnキョク・ゴクKunきわめる・きわまる・きわまり

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