khôn cùng

Thân thiện

Anh ấy đã cố gắng khôn cùng để hoàn thành công việc.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Boundless / Endless / Inexhaustible: Describes something that is extremely vast, limitless, or seemingly without end in quantity, degree, or extent. It emphasizes an extreme, often overwhelming, abundance or intensity.

2. Adverb:

   • Infinitely / Extremely / Exceedingly: Used to modify an adjective or verb to indicate an action or state is done to an infinite or utmost degree.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • Lòng tham của hắn thật khôn cùng. (His greed is truly boundless.)
  • Sự kiên nhẫn của cô ấy dường như khôn cùng. (Her patience seems inexhaustible.)

• Adverb:

  • Cô ấy yêu anh ta khôn cùng. (She loves him infinitely.)
  • Cảnh tượng ấy đẹp khôn cùng. (That scene is exceedingly beautiful.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal, literary, or poetic contexts to convey a profound sense of limitlessness or extreme quality. It is stronger and more emphatic than common synonyms like "rất" (very).

Variants and Related Words

• Vô cùng (adj/adv): Extremely, immensely. A more common near-synonym with similar meaning and usage.
  • Tôi vô cùng biết ơn. (I am immensely grateful.)

Synonyms

• Boundless: Having no limits.
• Inexhaustible: Unable to be used up.
• Infinite: Limitless or endless in space, extent, or size.
• Extremely: To a very great degree.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Khó khăn khôn cùng: (There are) no end of difficulties / endless difficulties.

  • Dự án mới gặp phải khó khăn khôn cùng. (The new project encountered no end of difficulties.)

• Khôn cùng tận: A reinforced form meaning absolutely endless, to the ultimate extent.

  • Nỗi đau khôn cùng tận. (A pain of infinite depth.)

Học thuật

1. No end of, No shortage of
   • Khó khăn khôn cùng
     There is no shortage of difficulties