List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- hard-liners, diehards, hawks
- (young) man with traditionally masculine interests, tough boy, man's man
- hard news, reporter who covers political and economic affairs
- strait-laced type (with respect to relationships)
- bullish traders
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- automatic
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- traditional, customary, conventional
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- malicious, vicious, malignant, underhanded
- shoddy, inferior, poor-quality, second-rate
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic)
- great, grand, magnificent, outstanding, mighty
popular search-only kanji form な adjective adjective (generic)
- moderate (view, politics, etc.), temperate, sensible, sober, non-radical
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- strange, odd, peculiar, queer, curious
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- strict, severe, stringent, rigorous, rigid, firm, strong, secure
popular JLPT N1 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- characteristic, traditional, peculiar, inherent, native, eigen-
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- solitude, loneliness, isolation