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憎らしい

JLPT N2 · Vocabulary

憎らしい — “hateful, provoking, annoyingly good”

憎らしい (read にくらしい) means hateful, provoking, annoyingly good. It appears on the JLPT N2 vocabulary list and is a adjective.

Reading

にくらしい

Meaning

hateful, provoking, annoyingly good

憎らしい in a sentence

憎らしいにくらしいほど上手じょうずだ。

He is annoyingly good at it.

The kanji in 憎らしい

憎to hate

Words that share a kanji with 憎らしい

憎むにくむ— to hate, to detest
憎いにくい— hateful, detestable

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