Illustration: A tremendous downpour batters the narrow lane outside a neighborhood grocery. Water spills over the entire length of the awning gutter, strikes the pavement in dense splashes, and surges around the shop's raised threshold.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

凄すさまじい

susamajii

tremendous, intense

Example sentences

  1. とはいえ、正月しょうがつの駅えきの大混雑振だいこんざつふりは凄すさまじいものがある。

    However, the extent of the congestion in this station is tremendous during the New Year holiday season.

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

  2. トンネル突入とつにゅうの際さい、圧縮あっしゅくされた空気くうきにより、退出側たいしゅつがわの坑口周辺こうこうしゅうへんで凄すさまじい騒音そうおんが発生はっせいする。

    When a Shinkansen train enters a tunnel, a tremendously large noise is generated at the exit side of the tunnel due to the compressed air.

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

  3. 扇雀当時せんじゃくとうじ、お初はつで大当おおあたりをとった時ときの人気にんきは凄すさまじく、特とくに関西かんさいでは知しらない人ひとのいないほどだった。

    When his stage name was Senjaku, he enjoyed huge popularity, especially when his performance of O-Hatsu was a big hit; his popularity was so great that everyone in the Kansai Region knew him.

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

Kanji in 凄

  • 凄uncanny; weirdOnセイ・サイKunさむい・すごい・すさまじい

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