Translation Japanese English: 苦い

1 abominable, acrimonious, atrocious, awful, bad, barbarous, big, bitter, brutal, cruel, crying, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, egregious, fearful, fearsome, fell, fierce, flagrant, frightening, glaring, gross, horrendous, horrific, merciless, painful, pretty, rank, raw, roughshod, savage, severe, tearing, terrible, trigger-happy, unmerciful, unspeakable, vehement, vicious, violent, wicked, wild.

2 abominable, afflictive, atrocious, awful, dreadful, irritating, painful, sore, terrible, unspeakable.

3 acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic.

4 acerb, acerbic, acrimonious, astringent, bitter, wry.

5 acrid, afflictive, arduous, backbreaking, bad, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, hot, irritating, laborious, operose, painful, piquant, pungent, punishing, rugged, salty, savory, savoury, sore, spicy, toilsome, tough, zesty.

6 acrimonious, acrobatic, acuate, acute, agile, athletic, bitter, bristly, buoyant, chirpy, discriminating, gymnastic, incisive, keen, knifelike, needlelike, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perky, piercing, prickly, quick, sharp, shrill, splenetic, sprightly, spry, waspish.

7 acrimonious, afflictive, arduous, backbreaking, bitter, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, operose, painful, punishing, sore, stressful, toilsome, tough, trying.

8 acrimonious, bitter, bristly, jutting, prickly, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, splenetic, sticking, sticking out, waspish.

9 acrimonious, bitter, bristly, lemonlike, lemony, prickly, sourish, splenetic, tangy, tart, waspish.

10 acrimonious, bitter, bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish, witty.

11 acrimonious, bitter, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky.

12 acrimonious, bitter, salty.

13 afflictive, arduous, backbreaking, bad, baffling, elusive, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, knotty, labored, laborious, laboured, operose, painful, problematic, problematical, punishing, sore, strained, toilsome, tough.

14 afflictive, arduous, backbreaking, deplorable, distressful, distressing, disturbing, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, lamentable, operose, painful, perturbing, pitiful, punishing, sad, severe, sore, sorry, toilsome, troubling, worrisome, worrying.

15 afflictive, distressful, distressing, disturbing, irritating, mournful, painful, perturbing, plaintive, sore, troubling, unhappy, worrisome, worrying.

16 afflictive, dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, painful, sore, tearful, weeping.

17 afflictive, painful, raw, sensitive, sore, tender, trying.

18 anguished, bitter, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, sad, tormented, tortured, woebegone, woeful.

19 painful, teasing.