chu tất

Thân thiện

Cô ấy luôn có sự chuẩn bị chu tất trước mỗi chuyến đi.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Thorough, complete, meticulous: Describes something done with full attention to every detail, leaving nothing unfinished or overlooked. It implies a high standard of care and completeness.
   • Perfect, consummate: Used to describe an action or result that is executed flawlessly and to the highest degree.

2. Verb:

   • To arrange thoroughly, to see to something completely: The act of managing, preparing, or concluding an affair with meticulous care and attention to all necessary details.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • Công tác chuẩn bị đã rất chu tất. (The preparatory work was very thorough.)
  • Một buổi tiệc được tổ chức chu tất. (A perfectly organized party.)

• Verb:

  • Anh ấy luôn chu tất mọi việc trước khi đi. (He always arranges everything thoroughly before leaving.)
  • Cô ấy chu tất việc tang lễ cho ông nội. (She saw to her grandfather's funeral arrangements with thorough care.)

Advanced Usage

• The word chu tất carries a formal and literary tone, often used in written Vietnamese or in formal speech to commend the quality of preparation or execution.
• It can describe abstract preparations (e.g., plans, logistics) as well as concrete tasks (e.g., household affairs, events).

Variants and Related Words

• Chu đáo (adj): Considerate, thoughtful, attentive. While similar, chu đáo often emphasizes thoughtful care for people, whereas chu tất emphasizes the completeness of a task or preparation.
• Cẩn thận (adj): Careful, cautious. This is a more general term for being careful and does not inherently convey the sense of thorough completion that chu tất does.
• Hoàn tất (v): To complete, to finish. This focuses on the finalization of an action but does not necessarily imply the meticulousness of chu tất.

Synonyms

• Thorough: Complete with regard to every detail.
• Meticulous: Showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
• Consummate: Complete or perfect in every way.
• To finalize: To complete the final part of an arrangement.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Làm cho chu tất: To do something to completion and perfection.
  • Hãy làm cho chu tất rồi hãy nghỉ. (Finish it thoroughly and perfectly before you rest.)
• Công việc chu tất: A consummated/perfectly completed task.
  • Nhờ có sự chu tất, dự án đã thành công. (Thanks to its thoroughness, the project was a success.)

Học thuật

adj

1. Full and careful
   • chuẩn bị chu tất
     full and careful preparations

verb

1. To see to (some business) with thoroughness and care
   • chu tất việc nhà
     to see to the household affairs with thoroughness and care, to contrive well