頼もしい: 9 Terms and Phrases

• 頼もしい
• reliable
• trustworthy
• hopeful
• promising
• dependable
• look good

• 末頼もしい
• promising (future)

• 頼もしい労働者
• a dependable worker

• 彼は頼もしい男だ。
• He is a man to be depended on.

• 頼もしい追随者（特に党派政治における）
• a dependable follower (especially in party politics)

• 父（とと）さんも母（かか）さんもそれは頼もしいお方
• Both my father and mother are very dependable.

• 当時、この噂は京にも聞こえ後白河上皇の耳にも達して、平康頼なる人物は目代ながら、武士道の礼節をわきまえた頼もしい若者との深い印象を与え、近習に取立てた。
• When this story reached Kyoto and the ears of Retired Emperor Goshirakawa, he got the impression that TAIRA no Yasuyori, despite his rank of deputy provincial governor, was a trustworthy young man infused with the spirit of Bushido (the code of the samurai), and promoted him to the post of kinju (attendant).

• 有力ではない意見にたいしては、一般的な非難も受けずに使用されるばかりか、この武器を使う人が頼もしい熱意と正当な義憤を賞賛されることだってありうるのです。
• against the unprevailing they may not only be used without general disapproval, but will be likely to obtain for him who uses them the praise of honest zeal and righteous indignation.

• また、当時幕末以来の盟友であった同郷の大木喬任や副島種臣らと路線の違いから疎遠になりつつあった大隈にとって、他に先んじて改革の提言をもたらす改正掛の存在が頼もしい存在であったことを後に証言している（『大隈公昔日譚』）。
• In addition, for Okuma who estranged himself from his old friends since the end of Edo Period such as Takato OKI and Taneomi SOEJIMA because of different way of living their life, the existence of Kaiseigakari, which gave him evolutional proposals about reformation, was very reliable, and he admitted it later ('Okuma memoir').