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First opened Saturday, April 4, 2026

物足りない

ものたりない

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unsatisfied, unsatisfactory

JLPT N1Commonadjective (keiyoushi)和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 物足

In a sentence

  • このドラマは単純(たんじゅん)な勧善懲悪(かんぜんちょうあく)もので、今(いま)一(ひと)つ深(ふか)みに欠(か)けて物足(ものた)りない。

    This drama is missing something. All it is is a simple cautionary tale with no real depth.

    Tatoeba #223451, translation #60786

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Also opened on April 4

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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