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Japanese
苦しい くるしい 同音

adj-i

  1. painful; difficult; tough; hard
  2. distressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position)
  3. straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling
  4. strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.); lame (e.g. excuse); forced (e.g. smile); far-fetched

suffix

  1. hard to do; unpleasant (after -masu stem of verb; often ぐるしい)
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