N21309/1725

そそっかしい

い adjectiveadjective (generic)

Meanings

careless, thoughtless, hasty, rash

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Example sentences

彼女かのじょはそそっかしいから、よく忘わすれ物ものをする。

Because she is careless, she often forgets things.

そそっかしい性格せいかくを直なおそうと毎日まいにち努力どりょくしている。

I make an effort every day to fix my careless personality.

そそっかしくて、大切たいせつな書類しょるいにサインするのを忘わすれてしまった。

Being hasty, I forgot to sign the important documents.

あんなにそそっかしい人ひとに重要じゅうような仕事しごとを任まかせるのは心配しんぱいだ。

It is worrying to entrust important work to someone as thoughtless as that.

彼かれはそそっかしいところがあるが、仕事しごとに対たいする情熱じょうねつは本物ほんものだと上司じょうしに評価ひょうかされている。

Although he tends to be rash, his superior evaluates him highly, saying his passion for work is genuine.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)