- 1. [adj-na] severely (criticize, run down, etc.); terribly; harshly; scathingly (uk)
- 2. [adj-na] unable to differentiate the good from the bad; (valuable and worthless things) treated the same (uk)
Conjugation — Adjective (―na)
This word itself does not change -- these are forms of the copula だ ("to be") attached to it.
| Attributive (before a noun) | みそくそな | (misokusona) |
| Non-past, plain | みそくそだ | (misokusoda) |
| Non-past, polite | みそくそです | (misokusodesu) |
| Past, plain | みそくそだった | (misokusodatta) |
| Past, polite | みそくそでした | (misokusodeshita) |
| Negative, plain | みそくそじゃない | (misokusojanai) |
| Negative, polite | みそくそじゃないです | (misokusojanaidesu) |
| Past negative, plain | みそくそじゃなかった | (misokusojanakatta) |
| Past negative, polite | みそくそじゃなかったです | (misokusojanakattadesu) |
| Te-form | みそくそで | (misokusode) |
| Conditional (―nara) | みそくそなら | (misokusonara) |