chi chít
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Definitions
- Adjective:
- Densely packed, thickly clustered: Describes things that are very close together in large numbers, creating a dense, crowded appearance.
- Covered densely, riddled with: Indicates a surface or area that is covered or marked by a very large number of something.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Chữ viết chi chít. (The handwriting is dense/serried.)
- Cành cây chi chít những quả. (The branch is laden/densely covered with fruit.)
- Bầu trời chi chít những vì sao. (The sky is densely dotted with stars.)
- Hào giao thông đào chi chít dọc ngang. (Communication trenches are dug, densely crisscrossing the area.)
Advanced Usage
- "chi chít vết sẹo": covered in scars, riddled with scars.
- Cánh tay anh ấy chi chít vết sẹo. (His arm is covered in scars.)
- "chi chít nếp nhăn": densely wrinkled, covered with wrinkles.
- Khuôn mặt ông ấy chi chít nếp nhăn. (His face is densely wrinkled.)
Variants and Related Words
- Chít (a component, often used in reduplicative forms like "chi chít" for emphasis on density).
- Chằng chịt (adj): Intricately tangled or crisscrossed (e.g., đường dây chằng chịt - a tangled web of lines). This word shares the connotation of a dense, complex network but emphasizes interweaving more than mere clustering.
Synonyms
- Dày đặc: dense, thick (often for abstract things like schedules or concrete things like fog).
- Lít nhít: (colloquial) teeming with, swarming with (small things, often with a slightly negative connotation).
- Ken dày: packed tightly, crammed full.
Antonyms
- Thưa thớt: sparse, thinly scattered.
- Lơ thơ: sparse, scattered here and there (often for plants, hair).
adj
- Serried, tense
- chữ viết chi chítserried handwriting
- cành cây chi chít những quảa branch with dense clusters of fruit, a branch laden with fruit
- bầu trời chi chít những vì saothe vault of heaven is densely dotted with stars
- hào giao thông đào chi chít dọc ngangcommunication trenches densely crisscrossed