無理やり

Japanese
Kanji in this term
無 理
む
Grade: 4		 り
Grade: 2

Alternative forms

Adverb

無理やり (hiragana むりやり, rōmaji muriyari)

  1. forcibly, by force
    • 1905, Natsume Sōseki, I am a Cat‎:
      :
      そこを我慢 (がまん)して無 (む)理 (り)やりに這 (は)って行 (い)くとようやくの事 (こと)で何 (なん)となく人間臭 (にんげんくさ)い所 (ところ)へ出 (でっ)た。
      Soko o gaman shite muriyari ni hatte iku to yōyaku no koto de nantonaku ningen-kusai tokoro e detta.
      I forced myself to crawl out and eventually found myself in an inhabited place.

Synonyms
  • 強 (し)いて (shiite)

References
  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, ISBN 4469021067
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