List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- haughty, arrogant, proud, stuck-up
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- big-boned, sturdily built, stout
- solid (plan, storyline, etc.)
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の abbreviation
- playing to the gallery, grandstanding, gag, claptrap
- ad hoc, haphazard
- dress rehearsal
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- rational
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) な adjective
- aloof, proudly independent, standing apart, solitary
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- lack of common sense, thoughtlessness, senselessness, irrationality, absurdity
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- nonsense, no meaning, meaningless
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の Buddhism
- heartlessness, hardness of heart, coldheartedness, cruelty
- insentient, inanimate
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- infancy
- childish, infantile, immature, primitive
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- mild (climate), temperate, clement, pleasant, agreeable
- gentle (nature, personality, etc.), mild, quiet, pleasant
- moderate (statement, measure, etc.), mild, temperate