Coming: you'll be able to favorite these words shortly.
| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 乏しい |
とぼしい |
(adj) meagre; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; scanty; poor |
6203 |
| 乏しい |
ともしい |
(adj) meagre; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; scanty; poor |
6203 |
| 貧乏 |
びんぼう |
(adj-na,n) poverty; destitute; poor |
11395 |
| 窮地 |
きゅうち |
(n) dilemma; predicament |
11759 |
| 困窮 |
こんきゅう |
(n) poverty; distress |
14644 |
| 欠乏 |
けつぼう |
(n) want; shortage; famine |
16195 |
| 窮乏 |
きゅうぼう |
(n) poverty |
20325 |
| 窮屈 |
きゅうくつ |
(adj-na,n) narrow; tight; stiff; rigid; uneasy; formal; constrained |
24495 |
| 欠乏症 |
けつぼうしょう |
(n) (vitamin-)deficiency disease |
24848 |
| 貧窮 |
ひんきゅう |
(n) great poverty |
28008 |
| 窮状 |
きゅうじょう |
(n) distress; wretched condition |
28115 |
| 貧乏神 |
びんぼうがみ |
(n) god of poverty |
29190 |
| 貧乏人 |
びんぼうにん |
(n) poor man; the poor |
30552 |
| 無窮 |
むきゅう |
(adj-na,n) eternity; infinitude; immortality |
33282 |
| 窮迫 |
きゅうはく |
(n) financial difficulty; distress |
33462 |
| 窮まる |
きわまる |
(v5r) to terminate; to reach an extreme; to be in a dilemma; to be at an end |
33636 |
| 窮民 |
きゅうみん |
(n) poor people; the poor |
36396 |
| 器用貧乏 |
きようびんぼう |
(adj-na,n) Jack of all trades and master of none |
37130 |
| 貧乏揺すり |
びんぼうゆすり |
(n) shaking or tapping (i.e. one's foot) unconsciously |
40263 |
| 窮める |
きわめる |
(v1) (1) to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; (2) to investigate thoroughly; to master |
41904 |
| 天壌無窮 |
てんじょうむきゅう |
(n) as eternal as heaven and earth |
42342 |
| 貧乏性 |
びんぼうしょう |
(n) destined to poverty |
42342 |
| 窮極 |
きゅうきょく |
(adj-no,n) ultimate; extreme |
42893 |
| 耐乏 |
たいぼう |
(n) austerity; voluntary privation |
42893 |
| 窮鼠 |
きゅうそ |
(n) cornered rat or mouse |
44061 |
| 窮余 |
きゅうよ |
(n) extremity; desperation |
44061 |
| 窮境 |
きゅうきょう |
(n) predicament |
45436 |
| 窮死 |
きゅうし |
(n) dying in miserable circumstances |
47205 |
| 窮鳥 |
きゅうちょう |
(n) cornered bird |
48294 |
| 貧乏籤 |
びんぼうぐじ |
drawing a blank or an unlucky lot |
49657 |
| 学を窮める |
がくをきわめる |
(exp) to study exhaustively |
51560 |
| 窮すれば通ず |
きゅうすればつうず |
(exp) Necessity is the mother of invention |
51560 |
| 窮まりない |
きわまりない |
limitless; boundless; extreme |
51560 |
| 窮まり無い |
きわまりない |
limitless; boundless; extreme |
51560 |
| 窮み無き |
きわみなき |
without limit; endless |
51560 |
| 窮極目的 |
きゅうきょくもくてき |
extreme purpose |
51560 |
| 窮策 |
きゅうさく |
(n) desperate measure; expedient of last resort |
51560 |
| 窮措大 |
きゅうそだい |
(n) poor student (scholar) |
51560 |
| 窮追 |
きゅうつい |
(n) cornered; driven to the wall |
51560 |
| 窮余の策 |
きゅうよのさく |
desperate measure |
51560 |
| 金が乏しい |
かねがとぼしい |
be short of money |
51560 |
| 口を窮めて誉める |
くちをきわめてほめる |
(exp) to be lavish in another's praise |
51560 |
| 困窮者 |
こんきゅうしゃ |
the poor or needy or destitute |
51560 |
| 進退窮まる |
しんたいきわまる |
to be at a loss |
51560 |
| 耐乏生活 |
たいぼうせいかつ |
hard life; life of austerity |
51560 |
| 道が窮まる |
みちがきわまる |
(exp) to come to a dead end |
51560 |
| 貧窮化 |
ひんきゅうか |
(vs) impoverishment |
51560 |
| 貧乏に生まれる |
びんぼうにうまれる |
(exp) to be born poor |
51560 |
| 貧乏所帯 |
びんぼうじょたい |
poor household |
51560 |
| 貧乏暮し |
びんぼうぐらし |
(io) needy circumstances; living in poverty |
51560 |
| 貧乏暮らし |
びんぼうぐらし |
needy circumstances; living in poverty |
51560 |
| 貧乏揺るぎ |
びんぼうゆるぎ |
nervous mannerism |
51560 |
| 貧乏鬮 |
びんぼうくじ |
(n) unlucky number; blank; bad bargain |
51560 |
| 乏しきを分かつ |
とぼしきをわかつ |
(exp) to share poverty |
51560 |
| 乏しくなる |
とぼしくなる |
to get scarce; to run short |
51560 |
| 万事窮す |
ばんじきゅうす |
(n) There is nothing more that can be done |
51560 |