List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- careless, thoughtless, stupid, heedless, unobservant, inadvertent, incautious
な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- intelligent, shrewd
な adjective adjective (generic)
- heroic
noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- sensitiveness, sensitivity, delicacy (e.g. of feeling)
noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- liquidity, fluidity
- humoral
な adjective adjective (generic)
- sick of life, world-weary, pessimistic
な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- round
- tranquil, contentedly at ease
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- round, circular, spherical
- mellow (flavour, voice, etc.), mild, smooth
yojijukugo な adjective adjective (generic)
- suave, tactful, smooth
- versatile, adaptable
noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- being postponed, being repeatedly put off, being delayed