Definition

1. Adverb:

   • In a massive, surging, or overwhelming manner: Describes an action or movement characterized by a large, forceful, and often disorderly influx or advance.
   • In a rushed, impetuous, and unplanned way: Indicates doing something hastily, in large numbers or quantities, without proper order or planning.

2. Adjective (used predicatively):

   • Massive, overwhelming, surging: Describes a phenomenon or activity that occurs with great intensity, volume, and lack of control.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:

  • Sau khi mở cửa, khách hàng ùa vào ồ ạt. (After opening the doors, customers surged in overwhelmingly.)
  • Các công ty công nghệ đầu tư ồ ạt vào thị trường mới. (Technology companies invested massively in the new market.)
  • Không nên làm việc gì ồ ạt mà không có kế hoạch. (One should not do anything impetuously without a plan.)

• Adjective (predicative):

  • Đợt tuyển sinh này rất ồ ạt. (This enrollment wave is very massive/unplanned.)
  • Sự phản đối từ cộng đồng diễn ra ồ ạt. (The protest from the community occurred in a surging manner.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used to describe uncontrolled economic, social, or military movements.
  • Sự di cư ồ ạt từ nông thôn ra thành thị. (The massive migration from rural to urban areas.)
  • Cuộc tấn công ồ ạt của quân địch. (The enemy's overwhelming attack.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ồ à (interjection): An exclamation of sudden surprise or awe, often at a large scale. (Note: This is a distinct word with a different meaning).
• Ầm ầm (adverb): With a roaring or rumbling sound, sometimes implying a powerful, continuous force.

Synonyms

• Massively: In a large and heavy manner.
• Overwhelmingly: To such an extent that it is difficult to resist.
• Impetuously: In a sudden, forceful way without thought.
• In a rush: Quickly and without careful planning.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Ồ ạt tiến lên: To advance impetuously and in a crowd.
  • Quân đội ồ ạt tiến lên chiếm lĩnh cứ điểm. (The army advanced overwhelmingly to occupy the stronghold.)
• Làm ăn ồ ạt: To do business or work in a hasty, unplanned manner.
  • Công ty đó phá sản vì làm ăn ồ ạt, thiếu chiến lược. (That company went bankrupt because it operated impetuously, lacking a strategy.)

verb

1. to mass; to crowd