► 形容動詞
妙 [(1)みょう] meaning: strange rank: 2
☆ あの会社の経営状態について妙な噂を聞いた ⇨ I heard some strange rumor about the financial condition of the company
☆ 最近妻が妙に優しくて怖い ⇨ Recently my wife has been strangely nice, and I’m scared
☆ 彼女は全然美人じゃないのに妙に色気が有る ⇨ She’s not beautiful at all, but strangely sexy
More examples:
- 日本語に妙な英語を混ぜる風潮 ⇨ The trend of mixing weird English words with Japanese
- 子供の珍妙な質問に彼は思わず絶句した ⇨ He lost his words by a funny question from a child
- 上司が妙に機嫌が良いので不気味だ ⇨ It is kind of scary that my boss is in such a good mood
- 彼等がワールドカップに出場出来るかどうかは微妙だ ⇨ Their World Cup qualification is hanging in the balance
- 今日は妙に電車が空いている ⇨ Today the trains are not crowded for some reason
- 妙に人擦れして可愛くない子供 ⇨ A child bizarrely street-smart, who has seen too much too early and is without adorable innocence
- 彼女はこれと言って美人なわけではないが妙に魅力がある ⇨ She is not particularly pretty, but very attractive for some reason
- あの暴力団はやり方が巧妙で警察も手が出せないでいる ⇨ The gang is very shrewd and the police haven’t been able to get to them
- 彼は知恵を絞って絶妙な解決策を考えだした ⇨ He wrung his wisdom, racked his brain, and came up with a great solution
- 女の子の気持ちは微妙だ ⇨ Feelings of young girls are delicate
- 彼は妙に意味深な言い方をした ⇨ He made a curiously ambiguous, insinuating, subtle, comment
- 彼は絶妙なゴールを決めた ⇨ He scored an exquisite goal
- あの二人は阿吽の呼吸が絶妙に合っている ⇨ Those two have telepathic communications
- 彼は妙なポーズを決めた ⇨ He struck a funny pose
- 私は妙案を思いついた ⇨ I’ve come up with an unusual solution