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覚束ない [ateji] 覚束無い [sK] おぼつか無い [sK] 覺束ない [sK]
おぼつかないかくそくない [ik]
1. [adj-i] [uk]
▶ uncertain
▶ doubtful
▶ unpromising
2. [adj-i] [uk]
▶ unreliable
▶ unsteady
▶ insecure
▶ shaky
▶ faltering
3. [adj-i] [uk]
▶ unclear
▶ vague
▶ hazy
▶ indistinct

Conjugations


History:
10. A 2023-03-10 04:55:11  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
9. A* 2023-03-10 04:12:15  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 覚束ない   │ 20,707 │ 17.4% │
│ 覚束無い   │  2,979 │  2.5% │ - sK
│ おぼつか無い │    485 │  0.4% │ - add, sK
│ 覺束ない   │    119 │  0.1% │ - sK
│ おぼつかない │ 94,526 │ 79.6% │
│ かくそくない │      0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -10 +10,5 @@
-<ke_inf>&ateji;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>おぼつか無い</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -14,2 +18 @@
-<ke_inf>&ateji;</ke_inf>
-<ke_inf>&oK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
8. A 2019-08-06 06:55:40  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
おぼつく	166
  Comments:
Short of creating an entry for おぼつく/おぼついて I don't think we can. I see blogs, etc. where people are asking about おぼつく.
7. A* 2019-08-06 05:32:18  Alan Cheng <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
おぼつかない	94526
おぼついて	460
  Comments:
I just encountered this as おぼついてなかった and I had a hard time looking it up here. Not sure if there's much that can be done since 「おぼつく」 isn't a thing, but I figured I'd bring it up.
6. A 2017-10-21 22:17:36  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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