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30 word matches found for '暗' using reading 'くら'
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Most common form: くらい
1. dark; gloomy
2. dark (in colour); dull
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1. total darkness; pitch dark
2. bleak future; poor prospects
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Most common form: 暗闇
noun
darkness; the dark
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Most common form: ボンクラ
noun
1. stupidity; idiocy  (often written with kana only)
2. blockhead; idiot; dimwit; mediocrity  (often written with kana only)
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'su' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to abscond; to conceal oneself  (often written with kana only)
2. to deceive; to dissemble; to fool  (often written with kana only)
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Most common form: 立ち眩み
noun
dizziness (from standing up too fast); orthostatic syncope; lightheadedness; vertigo
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expression, 'ru' godan verb
1. to lose hope  (see also: 目の前が暗くなる)
2. to be plunged into darkness
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expression, 'ru' godan verb
to feel gloomy; to feel blue; to feel melancholy
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noun
(clandestine) brothel (Edo period); whorehouse
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Most common form: 闇者
noun
1. prostitute  (see also: 暗者女)
2. imposter; fraudster; trickster
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noun
darkness; gloom
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noun
prostitute working in clandestine brothel (Edo period)  (see also: 暗屋)
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expression, noun
shadowy past; murky past
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expression, noun
dark color; dark colour
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dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum; pessimistic  (opposite: 根明)
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noun
darkness
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very bleak; dim  (of the future)
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pitch dark; total darkness
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Most common form: くらむ
'mu' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be disoriented by  (often written with kana only)
2. to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)  (often written with kana only)
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expression, 'ru' godan verb
to lose hope  (see also: 目の前が真っ暗になる)
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noun
dimness; dimly lit place
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noun
darkness under the trees; dark place under the trees  (obscure term)
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expression
it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London
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expression, 'su' godan verb
to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp
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expression
it's always darkest before the dawn; the darkest hour is just before the dawn
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noun
shadow cast by a person's hand
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dark even in the daytime
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noun
semi-darkness; dusk; twilight; poor light
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expression, 'su' godan verb
to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow  (idiomatic expression)
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know little of the world
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