N2477/1725

真まっ暗くら

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まっくら

Meanings

pitch-dark, pitch-black, completely dark
very bleak (future), utterly hopeless

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Example sentences

停電ていでんで部屋へやの中なかが真っ暗まっくらになった。

The room became pitch-dark due to the power outage.

トンネルの中なかは真っ暗まっくらで、何なにも見みえなかった。

Inside the tunnel it was pitch-black, and I couldn't see anything.

彼女かのじょは将来しょうらいが真っ暗まっくらに感かんじられて、希望きぼうを失うしないそうになった。

She felt her future was utterly hopeless and nearly lost all hope.

山やまの中なかでは街灯がいとうがなく、夜よるになると真っ暗まっくらな道みちが続つづいていた。

Deep in the mountains there were no streetlights, and when night fell, the road stretched on in complete darkness.

経済的けいざいてきな問題もんだいが重かさなり、彼かれの事業じぎょうの見通みとおしは真っ暗まっくらだと言いわざるを得えない。

With economic problems piling up, one cannot help but say that the outlook for his business is utterly bleak.

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.)