憎らしい

にくらしい · nikurashii · JLPT N2 · i-adj

hateful

憎い (nikui, hateful) + らしい (-worthy of) = worthy of being hated

Built from 憎い (nikui, hateful) plus the suffix らしい, which marks something as deserving or typical of a quality. So 憎らしい means hateful enough to provoke hatred.

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