List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- desperation, self-abandonment
noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- limitless
- apolar
- limitlessness of taiji
archaic な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- inhuman, immoral, unreasonable, outrageous, wicked
- barbarity (one of the eight unpardonable crimes, incl. killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse)
な adjective adjective (generic)
- worldwide
な adjective adjective (generic)
- catchy
な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- juicy (i.e. having lots of juice or liquid)
- Okinawan rice gruel meal
な adjective adjective (generic)
- geometric (progression, etc.)
onomatopoeic or mimetic word noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb する noun (generic) intransitive verb
- dry, dried out, juiceless
- barely, just, narrowly, with difficulty
expression な adjective adjective (generic)
- (suddenly) quiet
rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic)
- modest, reserved