cay nghiệt
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Harsh, severe: Describes something extremely strict, unpleasantly rough, or difficult to endure. It often implies a cruel or merciless quality.
- Bitter, cruel: Used to characterize treatment, behavior, or conditions that are unkind, oppressive, and cause suffering.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Thời tiết ở sa mạc thật cay nghiệt. (The desert weather is truly harsh.)
- Lời phê bình của anh ấy quá cay nghiệt. (His criticism was too cruel.)
- Số phận đôi khi thật cay nghiệt. (Fate can be so bitter.)
Advanced Usage
- "cay nghiệt" to describe irony: Can describe a situation that is cruelly or bitterly ironic.
- Sự thật cay nghiệt ấy khiến cô suy sụp. (That bitter truth made her collapse.)
Variants and Related Words
- Nghiệt ngã (adj): Severe, harsh, cruel (often interchangeable with , but may emphasize a pitiless, inevitable harshness).
- Cuộc sống nơi đây thật nghiệt ngã. (Life here is truly harsh.)
Synonyms
- Harsh: Unpleasantly rough or severe.
- Cruel: Willfully causing pain or suffering.
- Severe: Very intense or strict.
- Bitter: Having a sharp, unpleasant taste; metaphorically, causing pain or resentment.
Related Idioms
- While itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it is used in contexts describing the harshness of life, fate, or treatment.
- Cuộc đời cay nghiệt đã dạy anh nhiều bài học. (A harsh life taught him many lessons.)
- Harsh, very severe
- thời tiết cay nghiệtvery severe weather