Word Meaning 到底

とうてい toutei

到底 is read as とうてい (toutei) and means (cannot) possibly.

Meaning

English

  1. (cannot) possibly
  2. (not) by any means
  3. (not) at all
  4. utterly
  5. absolutely

Reading

Kana

とうてい

Romaji

toutei

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 16 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Upper grade Kanken 4級 Rank 7367 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

海底

かいてい

undersea

船底

せんてい

ship's bottom

谷底

たにぞこ

valley floor

そこ

bottom

心底

しんそこ

bottom of one's heart

水底

すいてい

sea or river bottom

奥底

おくそこ

bottom (of one's heart)

根底

こんてい

root

川底

かわぞこ

riverbed

地底

ちてい

depths of the earth

水底

みなそこ

sea or river bottom

湖底

こてい

bottom of a lake

Example Sentences

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I can't possibly think your story is true.

I cannot bring myself to do such a thing.

It is just out of the question for me to finish the work in a day.

Me? I can't even begin to draw buffalo, deer and horses so you can tell them apart.

The UFO, with a zigzag movement you couldn't think of as being a plane, flew off into the mountains in the east.

The UFO, with a zigzag movement you couldn't think of as being a plane, flew off into the mountains in the east.

It's very unlikely that the teacher will believe Tom's excuse for not having his homework done on time.

I think it's highly unlikely that Tom was not aware that he wouldn't be allowed to enter the museum without his parents.

Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.