Illustration: Inside a small neighborhood association meeting room, five adults sit around a low table after an evidently difficult exchange. Nobody meets anyone else’s eyes.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

重おも苦くるしい

omokurushii

oppressive, gloomy

Example sentences

晩年ばんねんの作さくは妙みょうな重苦おもくるしさがあると評ひょうされる。
His later works are said to have a strangely oppressive quality.
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失敗しっぱいの話はなしが出でて、会議室かいぎしつは重苦おもくるしい空気くうきに包つつまれた。
When the failure came up, a tense atmosphere filled the meeting room.
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重苦おもくるしい雲くもが町まちの上うえに広ひろがっていた。
Heavy, gloomy clouds spread over the town.
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Kanji in 重苦

重heavy; importantOnジュウ・チョウKunえ・おもい・おもり
苦suffering; trialOnクKunくるしい・くるしむ・くるしめる

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