"うとましく思う" meaning?


Google gave me "disagreeable" for just "うとましく" and "to be shy" for "うとましく思う"

These obviously don't have the same meaning. What's more, when I put the full
sentence that I'm trying to translate into DeepL Translator and Google
Translate, (the sentence was "しかし、そんな将校をうとましく思う男がいた。それは、王様の下につく大臣だ") it came
up with "to be envious"

So which is correct? or are none of those correct? Any reason why I got all
these different answers (plus "to have an inferiority complex?)




I'm not quite sure how Google got "to be shy" for 疎【うと】ましく思【おも】う. In my
experience, 疎ましく思う usually means more "to be annoyed", "to have bad feelings
about (something/someone)", "to feel like (something) is not right/unfair",
etc.

I suppose in some contexts, things like 疎ましく思う感じ can be interpreted as
"feeling isolated/estranged", which may be where Google got "shy" from, but I
think that's really more a feeling of not getting along with someone or being
excluded from a group, etc, not merely being shy or introverted.

So given this, I think one can also see how it might actually make sense to
translate it as something like "envious" too, in sentences like your example.

This is another good example of why you shouldn't put too much trust in things
like Google Translate (DeepL is much better, IMHO, but still not perfect
either), especially for translating individual words/phrases out of context...




I'm not quite sure how Google got "to be shy" for 疎【うと】ましく思【おも】う. In my
experience, 疎ましく思う usually means more "to be annoyed", "to have bad feelings
about (something/someone)", "to feel like (something) is not right/unfair",
etc.

I suppose in some contexts, things like 疎ましく思う感じ can be interpreted as
"feeling isolated/estranged", which may be where Google got "shy" from, but I
think that's really more a feeling of not getting along with someone or being
excluded from a group, etc, not merely being shy or introverted.

So given this, I think one can also see how it might actually make sense to
translate it as something like "envious" too, in sentences like your example.

This is another good example of why you shouldn't put too much trust in things
like Google Translate (DeepL is much better, IMHO, but still not perfect
either), especially for translating individual words/phrases out of context...

