cơ cực
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely poor and hard; destitute and difficult: Describes a state of severe poverty and hardship, involving great suffering and struggle to meet basic needs.
- Miserable; wretched: Refers to a condition of profound unhappiness and distress caused by extreme deprivation.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Họ đã trải qua một thời thơ ấu cơ cực. (They experienced an extremely poor and hard childhood.)
- Cuộc sống cơ cực khiến bà ấy già đi trông thấy. (The destitute and difficult life made her age visibly.)
- Người nông dân phải làm việc cơ cực quanh năm. (The farmer had to work in wretched conditions all year round.)
Advanced Usage
- The word "cơ cực" often implies a prolonged, grinding state of poverty and struggle, not just a temporary difficulty. It conveys a sense of being worn down by life's hardships.
Variants and Related Words
Cực khổ (adj): Hard, arduous, full of toil and suffering.
- Công việc này rất cực khổ. (This work is very arduous.)
Khốn khổ (adj): Miserable, distressed, pitiful.
- Gia đình khốn khổ đó cần sự giúp đỡ. (That miserable family needs help.)
Synonyms
- Destitute: Lacking the necessities of life.
- Wretched: In a state of deep misery or poverty.
- Impoverished: Reduced to poverty.
Related Idioms
Nếm mùi cơ cực: To taste/experience extreme hardship.
- Ông ấy đã nếm mùi cơ cực từ khi còn nhỏ. (He tasted extreme hardship from a young age.)
Đói cơ cực: To be ravenously hungry; in a state of extreme hunger.
- Sau trận đói kéo dài, dân làng đều đói cơ cực. (After the prolonged famine, the villagers were all ravenously hungry.)
adj
- Ravenous; poor and hard