Lingaku思い【おもい】
Frequency rank: 1,324.
- thought
- imagination; mind; heart
- desire; wish; hope; expectation
- love; affectione.g. Ａ思いのＢ for 'B who loves A'
- feelings; emotion; sentiment; experience
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Forms
- 思い【おもい】Frequency rank: 1,324.
- 想い【おもい】Frequency rank: 2,074. – 2,075.
- 念い【おもい】
- おもいFrequency rank: 45,256. – 46,118.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- thought
- imagination; mind; heart
- desire; wish; hope; expectation
- love; affection
- feelings; emotion; sentiment; experience
This refers to the process of thinking or a particular idea that one has in their mind.
This captures the abstract faculties involved in creativity, feeling, or emotional life.
Memories from my childhood came back to my mind.
This meaning pertains to aspirations or desires that one hopes to achieve or experience.
This refers to deep feelings for someone or something, typically with warmth or attachment.
This encompasses various emotional states or sentiments experienced in life.
Generated collocations (experimental)
おもいをはせる思いを馳せるto think about; to reminisceおもいで思い出memoryおもい思いをつたえる伝えるto convey one's feelingsおもいいれ思い入れdeep attachment; emotional connectionおもいつき思い付きidea; notionおもいのまま思いのままat one's own convenience; at willおもいなやむ思い悩むto worry; to be troubledおもいきり思い切りto one's heart's content; to do something wholeheartedlyおもいうかべる思い浮かべるto imagine; to recallあい愛のおもい思いfeelings of loveつよい強いおもい思いstrong feelingsあつい熱いおもい思いpassionate feelings
Example sentences
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The mother was embarrassed at her son's bad manners.
The mother greatly missed her daughter, who was away at college.
To compensate for his unpleasant experiences in the hospital, Tom drank a little more than was good for him.
She felt so humiliated that she couldn't say anything.
She is bitterly ashamed of her son for stealing.
There's more to her than you think. She may seem pretty meek on first glance, but I get the sense she can get things done when she needs to.