空々しい

• 読み: そらぞらしい
• ローマ字: sorazorashii
• 漢字の分解: 空 (sora/kuu) — sky, hollow, empty, vague
• 発音: /so.ɾa.zo.ɾa.ɕiː/

意味

Transparently false; obviously feigned; blatantly insincere; barefaced. Describes behaviour or speech that is clearly fake despite a pretence of sincerity.

A compound i-adjective from 空 (sora, hollow/empty) with the reduplication 々 and i-adjective suffix しい. Describes an act or expression so poorly concealed that its falseness is immediately apparent to observers. 空々しい嘘 (a barefaced lie) and 空々しい言い訳 (a transparent excuse) are typical collocations. More evaluative and condemning than 嘘くさい; 空々しい carries a literary, formal register that makes it more common in written prose and polished speech than in casual conversation.

例文

1. 散々迷惑をかけておいて空々しい謝罪の言葉を並べられても、誰も信じない。
2. 彼女が空々しい笑顔で挨拶するたびに、その本当の感情が透けて見えた。
3. 空々しい言い訳を聞かされるよりも、沈黙のほうがまだ潔いというものだ。

使い方ガイド

場面: deception, social critique, interpersonal relations, literature

トーン: negative

起源と歴史

From 空 (sora, hollow/empty) with the reduplicating character 々 and adjective suffix しい. The hollow emptiness implied by 空 suggests that the apparent sincerity has nothing behind it—it is all surface and no substance. Attested in classical literature as a descriptor of conspicuously false behaviour.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Universal