迷 信 深(めいしんぶか)い

めいしんぶかい

i-adjective

superstitious

Conjugation

1. superstitious

Strongly inclined to believe in superstitions and to act on them, such as avoiding the number four or a certain day of the calendar.

祖母(そぼ)は迷信深(めいしんぶか)い。

My grandmother is superstitious.

He is surprisingly superstitious.

My superstitious father never signs an important contract on a butsumetsu day.

迷信(めいしん) (superstition) + 深(ぶか)い (deep, from 深(ふか)い): "deep in superstition". The same ～深(ぶか)い appears in 疑(うたが)い深(ぶか)い (suspicious) and 信心深(しんじんぶか)い (devout).

縁起(えんぎ)を担(かつ)ぐ: to be superstitious about luck; the everyday verb phrase for the same habit (縁起(えんぎ)を担(かつ)ぐ人(ひと))

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