Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely or intensely red: Used as an intensifier after the color adjective "đỏ" (red) to describe something as being very or completely red. It often implies a vivid, striking, or sometimes garish shade.

Usage Notes

• The word "hoét" is almost never used alone in modern Vietnamese. It functions almost exclusively as a suffix following the color word "đỏ" to form the compound adjective "đỏ hoét".
• It conveys a sense of an excessive, overwhelming, or unpleasant degree of the color.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (in the compound "đỏ hoét"): (That shirt is blazing red, it's glaring to look at.) (The wall was painted a garish red.) (His hands were covered in bright red blood.)

Advanced Usage

• While "đỏ hoét" is the standard and primary form, the pattern "[color] + hoét" can be creatively extended to other colors for humorous or emphatic effect, though this is non-standard. : (Non-standard) Intensely green. : (Non-standard) Intensely yellow.

Variants and Related Words

• Đỏ hoét (adj): The primary compound form meaning intensely or unpleasantly red.
• Lòe loẹt (adj): Gaudy, flashy (of colors). This is a synonym for the of "đỏ hoét" rather than the color itself.

Synonyms

• Bright red: Of a strong, vivid red color.
• Vivid red: Strikingly bright red.
• Garish red: Obtrusively bright and showy red.

Related Idioms

• There are no common idioms directly using "hoét" independently. Its idiomatic meaning is fully contained within the fixed expression "đỏ hoét".