莫ばく大だい

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Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

na-adjective

vast; huge; immense; enormous

Describes an extremely large amount, scale, or degree, often of money, wealth, data, or effort. Used as a な-adjective or adverbial noun.

そのプロジェクトには莫ばく大だいな費ひ用ようがかかった。
The project required an enormous amount of money.

彼かれは莫ばく大だいな富とみを築きずいた。

He amassed a vast fortune.

2

noun

malva nut (Scaphium affine)

Rare botanical term for the malva nut tree or its seed. Not commonly encountered outside specialized contexts.

莫ばく大だいは東とう南なんアジア原げん産さんの植しょく物ぶつで、種しゅ子しが漢かん方ぽう薬やくに使つかわれる。
The malva nut is a plant native to Southeast Asia, and its seeds are used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Written forms

莫ばく大だいUsage96%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
ばく大だいUsage3%
search-only kanji form
Search-only kanji form; not normally used in writing.
ばくだいUsage1%

Kanji

莫must not, do not, be not
大large, big

Similar words

膨ぼう大だい
膨大 also means 'huge' or 'enormous', but often emphasizes physical bulk or swelling, while 莫大 focuses on abstract scale like money or data.
巨きょ大だい
巨大 means 'gigantic' and is more commonly used for physical size, whereas 莫大 is preferred for abstract quantities.

Etymology

The kanji 莫 means 'must not' or 'none', and 大 means 'big'. Together they form a compound suggesting something so large it is beyond measure. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used in Japanese for centuries to denote vastness.