Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Fretful and angry, irritated and annoyed: A state of being both bothered/vexed and angry, often due to a specific annoyance or frustration. It describes a simmering, irritable anger.
   • Indignant, outraged: Feeling anger and annoyance because of perceived unfair treatment.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Anh ấy trông rất bực tức vì kết quả không như ý. (He looks very fretful and angry because the result was not as expected.)
  • Cô ấy cảm thấy bực tức trước thái độ thờ ơ của họ. (She felt indignant at their indifferent attitude.)
  • Đừng có thái độ bực tức như vậy! (Don't have such a fretty and angry attitude!)

Advanced Usage

• "bực tức trong lòng": to be secretly/ inwardly fretful and angry.

  • Anh ta chỉ im lặng, bực tức trong lòng. (He just stayed silent, fretful and angry inside.)

• "chứa chất bực tức": to harbor/accumulate fretfulness and anger.

  • Cô ấy đã chứa chất bực tức từ lâu. (She has been harboring fretfulness and anger for a long time.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bực (adj/verb): annoyed, irritated; to be annoyed. A core component of "bực tức," often slightly less intense.

  • Tiếng ồn làm tôi bực. (The noise makes me annoyed.)

• Tức (adj/verb): angry, indignant; to be angry. The other core component, adding the element of anger.

  • Anh ta tức đến đỏ mặt. (He was so angry his face turned red.)

• Bực mình (adj): annoyed, vexed. Very close in meaning to "bực," sometimes used interchangeably with "bực tức" in casual speech but typically denotes annoyance without the strong anger of "tức."

  • Chuyện nhỏ mà cũng bực mình. (Such a small thing is also annoying.)

• Tức giận (adj): angry, furious. Emphasizes the "anger" component more strongly.

  • Lời nói đó khiến cô ấy tức giận. (Those words made her angry.)

Synonyms

• Khó chịu: uncomfortable, displeased, irritated (generally less intense than "bực tức").
• Phẫn nộ: furious, wrathful, indignant (stronger, more intense anger, often righteous).
• Cáu gắt: irritable, snappy (focuses on the irritable, short-tempered outward expression).

Idioms and Common Phrases

• "Bực tức đùng đùng": to be in a towering rage, to be boiling with anger.

  • Nghe tin đó, ông ấy bực tức đùng đùng. (Upon hearing that news, he was in a towering rage.)

• "Bực tức không nói nên lời": to be so fretful and angry one is speechless.

  • Cô ấy bực tức không nói nên lời. (She was so fretful and angry she was speechless.)

1. Fretty and angry
   • thái độ bực tức
     a fretty and angry attitude
   • không nén nổi sự bực tức chất chứa trong lòng
     to be unable to suppress one's pent-up frettiness and anger