meaning; significance; sense
interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
to have meaning; to be meaningful
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
very interesting; of great interest
of no interest; not interested
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
very interesting; of absorbing interest; having a keen interest (in); being immensely curious (about)
seasoning; flavoring; flavouring; condiment
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling
champion of justice; knight in shining armor; crime avenger; hero; super hero
good flavor; good flavour; delicacy; dainty
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)
close examination; careful investigation; investigation of a crime; inquiry into someone's guilt; winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game); (arch.) reciting and appreciating traditional poetry
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
unpleasant; uncomfortable; creepy; spooky
taste; palate; sense of taste
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
being somewhat excited (agitated)
sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake
friend and foe; enemies and allies; both sides
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)
to attract interest; to arouse someone's interest
(sense of) taste; counter for food, drink, medicine, etc.
-like; -looking; -looked; tending to ...
shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute
to enlist as a supporter; to win over to one's side; to gain as one's ally
the real pleasure (of something); the real thrill; flavour of ghee; (fig.) delicious taste; Buddha's gracious teachings
to make sense; to be meaningful
to make snide remarks; to put into bad mood
seasoning; flavoring; flavouring; addition; inclusion; taking into account
it serves you (him) right; it's what you (he) deserves
in a positive sense of the word; in the best sense of the word; in a good way
delightful; satisfying; gratifying; brisk; piquant
human kindness; human weakness
sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; charm; appeal
(a) weakness; shortcoming; failing; sore point
best-before date (on food); use-by date; expiry date; expiration date
in bad taste; vulgar; tasteless
bad taste (e.g. in clothes); poor taste
to arouse someone's interest; to whet (appetite); to be appealing; to be intriguing; to be fascinating
truthfulness; credibility; sincerity; honesty; good faith
shade; tone; tinge; hue; colour; color
meaning; connotation; denotation
interest; appeal; attraction; fun
tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes
ghastliness; dreadfulness; grimness; intimidation; menace; threat
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
seven delicious flavors (flavours); blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.); shichimi
relish; gusto; appreciation
clan; partisans; participation (e.g. in a plot); one flavour; one charm; one ingredient (in traditional Chinese medicine)
interests and preferences
condiment (e.g. grated or chopped topping such as daikon, wasabi, ginger, green onion, red pepper); spice
dull; uninteresting; dry; insipid; boring; prosaic
(school) girlish taste (for things that are sweet, cute, romantic, etc.); interest in young girls (rather than adult women)
reddish tinge; tinge of red; slight redness; reddishness; blush
hot taste; sharp taste; pungent taste; salty taste
slight cold; bit of a cold; touch of a cold; lingering cold
net weight; useful part; actual content; real; effective
tasteless and odorless; bland
being on the ropes; losing ground
food cooked in miso; cooking in miso
cafe featuring Japanese-style sweets
five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes; five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); (fig.) the five periods of the Buddha's teachings
somewhat reserved (diffident); shyly; timidly; retiringly; in a retiring (reserved) manner
exquisiteness; charm; beauty; advantage; profit; gain
tasteless; flavourless; uninteresting; dull; dry
deeply meaningful; profound; rich (in meaning)
nutriment; wholesome; savoriness; savouriness; rich food; nourishment
having no hobbies; lacking interests; humdrum; tasteless; prosaic; vulgar
seasoning; flavoring; flavouring
with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
charm; attractiveness; humanity
in good taste; tasteful; having good taste; having a cultivated taste
blueness; greenness; tinge of blue; (vegetable) garnish
distaste; unsavoriness; unsavouriness
in good taste; tasteful; (person) of refined taste; of cultivated tastes
smell and taste; flavour; flavor
self-flattery; sing one's own praises
the ostentation (bad taste) of the nouveau riche; air of vulgar prosperity
soil fertility; soil quality; productivity of the soil
tending to anemia; being somewhat anemic
to follow the sense; to understand the meaning of
having various interests; wide range of interests
value; worth; virtue; blessing
blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.)
fresh taste; novelty; originality; freshness
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
meat or fish or vegetables preserved in miso
Identification, Friend or Foe; IFF
half out of interest; mostly out of curiosity
being sick and tired (of); being fed up (with); having one's fill (of)
astringency; tartness; austere elegance; elegant simplicity; subdued style
subtext; implication; connotation; implicit meaning; between the lines
sweetener (sugar, honey, saccharin, maltose, etc.); sweetening agent; sweetening
reek of desperation; feeling of desperation
weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance
pretense; affectation; showiness
dysgeusia; taste disorder
mirin; type of sweet rice wine used in cooking
all sorts of delicacies; various unusual foods; sumptuous feast
nostalgia for the good old days; taste for the past; retro tastes
chemical seasoning (esp. monosodium glutamate)
semantics; the study of meaning
udon cooked in a broth containing miso paste
uncanny valley (hypothesis about humanoid robots)
auditor (Edo period); examiner; inquisitor; winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game)
to give meaning (to); to assess the significance (of)
black tinge; black colour; black color; (arch.) black part; (arch.) dark spot
being somewhat puzzled; looking somewhat baffled
being rather confused; looking somewhat dismayed (perturbed)
humorous flavour; something comical
roundness; rotundity; mellowness; maturity
tasting; relishing; savouring; appreciation; enjoyment
fried dish seasoned with miso
semantic content (of a term); meaning (of a sentence)
thickness; profundity; depth
logical paragraph (as opposed to a formal paragraph); segment of text expressing a single meaning
to make a mess of it; to make a hash of it; to fail and lose face; to spread miso (e.g. on konnyaku)
particular interest; fondness
miso lees; miso strainings; miso dregs; child who is made light of; child who is left out of games; immature child or person
in fooling the enemy first deceive your allies
brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area; miso mixed with crab innards or scraps
yellowish; cream-coloured; cream-colored
subdued taste; refined taste; haiku (poetic) flavor (flavour)
miso-based sauce; miso sauce
meat miso; miso mixed with ground meat
whole party to a plot; whole gang; fellow conspirators
being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is
combined miso (e.g. white and red)
taste for the exotic; infatuation with a foreign way of life; exoticism
yellowish; cream-coloured; cream-colored
yellowish; tinged with yellow
hatcho miso; dark miso variety produced in Aichi Prefecture
overheated; hyper-; overearnest
salted rice-bran paste for pickling
rice miso; miso fermented with malted rice
the flavor of Zen; the flavour of Zen; air or style of disinterestedness
harsh; severe (e.g. criticism, verbal attack); sweeping denunciation
miso ball; bean paste ball
simple wedding; modest wedding
miso with sugar, sake, yuzu juice and skin; hollowed out yuzu stuffed with miso and yuzu juice then baked
reading with appreciation; savouring (a book); enjoying
salad (or fish, etc.) dressed with miso
being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein
mirin-style condiment; mirin-like seasoning; low-alcohol mirin
propensity to put oneself in as bad a light as possible; being prone to act bad
to lick someone's boots; to flatter
paste of miso, ground toasted sesame seeds, mirin, etc.
oden made with hatcho miso
taste; thinking over carefully
pedantry; display of one's learning; being of a pedantic disposition
flavour enhancer (e.g. monosodium glutamate); flavor enhancer
magnolia leaves grilled with miso and negi
low-salt miso; sweet miso
commonplace; vapid; insipid
reading carefully with appreciation; giving (something) a careful perusal
rare delicacies; rare treat
delicacies; epicurean dishes
looking up the meaning (of a word)
appreciating fully (e.g. work of art)
high-salt miso; salty miso
(people) working together with one mind
grinding miso; flattery; flatterer; monk
flavoring; flavouring; spice
bad smell; affectation; fulsomeness
appreciating fully (e.g. work of art)
propensity to efface oneself; being prone to conceal one's talent
semantic information; meaningful information
delicious flavor; superb taste
Kyoto-style miso; Kyoto-style sweet white bean paste (esp. used for pickling fish)
(true) mirin; mirin containing alcohol
sweet paste of white beans and miso
to verbally attack (violently); to run down; to criticize severely; to criticise severely
not distinguishing between what's good and bad; (lit.) miso and shit are the same
uninteresting; tending to spoil the fun (pleasure) (of); throwing a wet blanket (on)
miso ball; bean paste ball
to be nutritious; to be delicious
overly concerned with domestic affairs; having an air of domesticity
harsh; severe (e.g. criticism, verbal attack); jumble; mess
tasteless, odorless and colorless
flavoured miso; miso mixed with meat, vegetables, fish, etc.
acidulant; acidity regulator
soybean; soybeans boiled until soft for making miso
freeze-dried powdered miso (usu. salty); instant miso
main fermenting mash (in production of sake or soy sauce); unrefined sake or soy sauce; unrefined (sake, soy sauce, etc.); rough
taut (condition); taken up slack; removed slack
good taste (food); tasty food
autumn, season of the tastes
disposition toward rejecting mundane affairs and enjoying nature and art
miso eaten as it is; neat miso as an accompaniment
torture (in the Edo-period)
miso mixed with sugar and sake, thickened by stirring over low heat
miso, fried soybeans and vegetables seasoned with sake and sugar
enjoying food, drink and entertainment in a small room
Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji)
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; (lit.) the neighbour's salted rice bran paste (smells sweeter)
seasoning (esp. in food industry with additives); flavoring
miso mixed with pork; pork miso
low-ranking monk (tasked with doing kitchen chores); monk
not distinguishing between what's good and bad; not knowing chalk from cheese; mixing good and bad together; (lit.) shit and miso are the same
not making sense; meaningless
incomprehensible; not making sense
best-before period (e.g. foodstuffs)
taste; flavor; flavour; deliciousness
mouthfulness (of food and drink); body
relational theory of meaning
vinegared miso mixed with mustard
reddish; tinged with red; rufous
seasoning solution; flavoring solution
things that look similar but are completely different; (lit.) geta and grilled miso
great flavor; great taste
six flavors (bitter, sour, sweet, salty, spicy, light); six palates; six tastes; rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
annual event of miso-making; first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation
bonito miso; miso mixed with bonito
miso mixed with minced great burdock, ginger, etc. and sweetened with sugar
harshness; acridity; astringent taste; bitter taste
good things do not last long
rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
medicinal drink made from plants steeped in mirin
plate for compounding condiments; small dish for serving condiments
scrutiny; careful (close) examination (investigation); careful inquiry; careful selection
grilled miso mixed with chili peppers; person who acts tough but is actually timid
fermented seasoning (e.g. mirin, cooking sake, miso)
miso mixed with fish (often tai)
fish sliced open, seasoned with mirin, soy sauce, etc. and dried in the sun
taste masking agent; flavoring substance
vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste
dish of white miso mixed with roasted Japanese nutmeg powder, sugar and sesame seeds, etc.
haiku-like quality; clever feeling; witty flavor
miso from the Kamakura era
spirogyra; algae forming pond scum
sourness (in taste); acidity
lingulate brachiopod (esp. species Lingula anatina)
zygnema; any freshwater filamentous thalloid algae of genus Zygnema
oedogonium (any of a genus of filamentous green algae)