Japanese DictionaryDefinition of たらしい
Words related to たらしい
- (adj-i) new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date; modern
あなたの新しい車は調子よく動いていますか。
Is your new car behaving well?
- (adj-i) original; novel; new
彼の目新しい提案はみんなに受け入れられた。
His novel proposal was accepted by everybody.
- (n) neophilia; love of new things
私って、新しいもの好きで、店で、新製品（食べ物）をみるとすぐ買ってしまう。でも、そのうち半分は失敗するね。
I love trying out new things, so I always buy products as soon as they hit the store shelves. Of course, half the time I end up wishing I hadn't.
- (adj-i) tedious; lengthy; overlong; long-winded
講演は長たらしくて私はつまらなくなった。
The lengthy lecture palled on me.
Sentences containing たらしい
However it was not just me, there was one more person, no, one more creature visiting.
That would be twenty-seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.