空しい (むなしい): vacant, futile, vain — Japanese vocabulary
空しい is read むなしい and means "vacant, futile, vain". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.
空しい
- Reading
- むなしい · munashii
- Translation
- vacant, futile, vain
- Level
- JLPT N1
- Pitch accent
- むなしいがむなしいが
Example
彼の死は彼らの生活に空しさをもたらした。
かれのしはかれらのせいかつにむなしさをもたらした。
His death has left a vacuum in their lives.
Kanji in this word
- 空 — sky, empty
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