Dictionary🇯🇵 Japanese → 🇺🇸 English
Japanese to English Dictionary
真っ暗
makkura
Description
「真っ暗」は、光が全くなくてとても暗いようすを表す言葉です。
"真っ暗" describes a state of complete darkness with no light at all.
部屋や外が何も見えないくらい暗いときに使います。
It is used when a room or outside is so dark that nothing can be seen.
Meanings
真っ暗makkura
pitch-dark; completely dark
部屋の中は真っ暗だった。
The room was completely dark.
真っ暗makkura
hopeless; bleak (about the future)
未来が真っ暗に感じた。
The future felt bleak.
Related words
Notes
- Etymology
真っ (intensifying prefix, "completely") + 暗 (dark), a na-adjective.
- Nuance
stronger than 暗い; also used figuratively for a hopeless outlook.
Images