expression / adjective:

• hard-nosed; strong-willed; determined; unyielding; stubborn; resolute; assertive; headstrong ➜ 鼻っ柱が強い

expression / adjective:

• incoherent; inconsistent ➜ つじつまの合わない

expression / adjective:

• waking up early; getting up early; early rising

adjective:

• unnatural; affected; studied; forced - colloquialism ➜ 態とらしい【わざとらしい】

adjectival noun:

• blue-green

noun:

• lush growth

adjectival noun / noun:

• rough; crude; unrefined

expression / adjective:

• reasonable; understandable; justified; not without reason

adjectival noun:

• satirical; sarcastic; ironic

adjectival noun / noun:

• Turing complete - IT term

noun / ~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• tinkling sound (esp. bell on the Emperor's carriage); bright sound of metal being struck - archaism

noun:

• cry of the phoenix - archaism

expression / adjective:

• unthinkable; unimaginable; inconceivable; unclassifiable; never dreamt of ➜ 考えつく【かんがえつく】

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless

expression / adjectival noun / adverb:

• what kind; what sort; how; in what way - Kansai dialect ➜ どんな・如何【どう】・どの様に【どのように】

adjectival noun:

• electromagnetic

adjectival noun:

• autonomous; autonomic; self-sustaining; self-directed

adjective:

• measley; paltry; deplorable; execrable

adjectival noun:

• difficult; hard; troublesome; complicated; serious (disease, problem, etc.)

adjectival noun:

• exclusive

expression / adjective:

• cannot (do); it is impossible that...; it is (highly) unlikely that... ➜ はずが無い

adjectival noun / noun:

• extremely difficult - slang

adjective:

• very tiresome; exhausting; being a damn nuisance - from 正直しんどい - slang

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun / adjectival noun:

• sparkling ➜ 発泡性

noun / adjectival noun:

• wise and virtuous; good and able men - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• showy; flashy; flamboyant

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand