Illustration: In a tiny neighborhood diner, a broad-shouldered customer has squeezed into a narrow counter seat between two occupied stools. Both elbows are pinned against the ribs, the knees press against the counter's underside, and the customer must turn a wrist awkwardly to lift a spoon.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

窮きゅう屈くつ

kyuukutsu

cramped, tight

Example sentences

  1. 列車れっしゃのコンパートメントはすぐ窮屈きゅうくつになる。

    Train compartments soon get cramped.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. このパジャマはもうトムには窮屈きゅうくつそうね。新あたらしいの買かおうね。

    These pajamas look like they’d be too tight on Tom now. Let’s buy some new ones.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. このため少々しょうしょう窮屈きゅうくつでも「四人枡よんにんます」はやはり四人よんにんで使つかっているのがほとんどである。

    Therefore, almost all 'masuseki for four' are used by four people, even if they feel cramped in such a confined space.

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

Kanji in 窮屈

  • 窮hard up; destituteOnキュウ・キョウKunきわめる・きわまる・きわまり
  • 屈yield; bendOnクツKunかがむ・かがめる

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