Nuance Dictionary / Complex Emotions

착잡하다 chak-jap-ha-da

Complicated, troubled, and jumbled in feeling

Heavier and more troubled than '애매하다' — this is what you feel reading a news story about an old friend's scandal: not one clean emotion, but guilt, disappointment, and pity all tangled together with no good exit.

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