めでたい・目出度い・愛でたい・芽出度いmedetai[3]nakadaka (mid-high)

JLPT N2approx.Common
Definitions
  1. i-adjectivehappy; auspicious; propitious; joyous
    その一いち件けんはめでたく落着らくちゃくするだろう。↗
    The affair will come to a happy conclusion.
  2. i-adjectivenaive
Conjugation
Plain formめでたい
Polite (desu)めでたいです
Negative (kunai)めでたくない
polite (ku arimasen)めでたくありません
Past (katta)めでたかった
Past negative (kunakatta)めでたくなかった
Te form (kute)めでたくて
Adverbial (ku)めでたく
Conditional (kereba)めでたければ
kattaraめでたかったら

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Antonym悲しいかなしいNeutralRefers to sadness and sorrow; the direct opposite of the celebratory 「目出度い」.
  • Antonym不吉なNeutralMeans ominous or ill-omened; the opposite of the auspicious 「目出度い」.

Use 「目出度い」 for joyful, auspicious things worth celebrating, as in 「おめでとう」; said ironically, 「おめでたい」 can also mean naive. For sadness use 「悲しい」, and for something ominous 「不吉な」.

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Japanese definitions
  1. (芽出めで度たびい・目出度めでたい・可か慶よろこびい・可賀かがい)喜び祝よろこびいわう価値かちがあるさま。
  2. 物事ものごとが上手うまく運はこんでいるさま。
  3. (「覚おぼえがめでたい」の形かたちで)高たかく評価ひょうかされているさま。
  4. (「おめでたい」の形かたちで)お人ひとよしである。
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