Word Meaning 凡庸

ぼんよう bonyou

凡庸 is read as ぼんよう (bonyou) and means mediocre.

Meaning

English

  1. mediocre
  2. ordinary
  3. commonplace
  4. banal

Reading

Kana

ぼんよう

Romaji

bonyou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 準2級 Antonyms 偉大 Rank 14515 Priority C

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

凡庸愚昧

ぼんようぐまい

ordinary and ignorant

凡人

ぼんじん

ordinary person

ぼん

ordinary

凡そ

およそ

outline

凡退

ぼんたい

out in 1-2-3 order

凡打

ぼんだ

easy fly

平凡

へいぼん

ordinary

非凡

ひぼん

extraordinary

Example Sentences

10

かれのさくひんはぼんようだ。

His work is mediocre.

かれにはぼんようなさいのうしかない。

He has only mediocre talent.

かれのかんがえはきわめてぼんようだ。

His ideas are extremely commonplace.

それはぼんようなさくひんにすぎない。

It is nothing more than a mediocre work.

かのじょはぼんようなせいかつにまんぞくしている。

She is satisfied with an ordinary life.

ぼんようなにんげんにはりかいできないだろう。

An ordinary person probably wouldn't understand.

かれはぼんようなみすをくりかえした。

He repeated a commonplace mistake.

かれはみずからのぼんようさをなげいた。

He lamented his own mediocrity.

To become popular, you need to be mediocre.

In the hands of a wise person, things become really simple. It's a mediocre person, pretending to be wise, that makes an easy thing sound difficult.