lạnh buốt
Definition
- Adjective:
- Bitingly cold / piercingly cold: Describes an intense, penetrating cold that causes a sharp, unpleasant physical sensation, often felt deep in the body or bones.
- Gelid / glacial: Conveys a coldness that is severe and extreme, similar to ice.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Gió mùa đông thổi lạnh buốt. (The winter wind blew bitingly cold.)
- Nước ở suối ngọn núi này lạnh buốt. (The water in this mountain stream is gelid.)
- Tôi cảm thấy lạnh buốt đến tận xương. (I feel chilled to the bone.)
Advanced Usage
- Used figuratively to describe a cold, emotionless, or deeply unsettling atmosphere.
- Ánh mắt của hắn ta lạnh buốt và đe dọa. (His gaze was icy and threatening.)
- Căn phòng trống trải có một vẻ lạnh buốt. (The empty room had a chillingly cold feel.)
Variants and Related Words
Lạnh giá (adj): cold, frigid (often describes weather or a general state of cold).
- Thời tiết miền Bắc vào đông thật lạnh giá. (The weather in the North in winter is truly frigid.)
Buốt giá (adj): numbing cold, freezing (emphasizes the painful, penetrating aspect of cold).
- Những ngón tay tôi tê cóng vì buốt giá. (My fingers were numb from the freezing cold.)
Synonyms
- Biting: (of cold) sharply unpleasant.
- Piercing: (of cold) seeming to cut through something.
- Gelid: extremely cold; icy.
- Glacial: very cold; like ice.
Related Idioms
- Lạnh buốt xương / Lạnh thấu xương: chilled to the bone; a state of being extremely cold.
- Đứng ngoài trời tuyết, chúng tôi lạnh buốt xương. (Standing outside in the snow, we were chilled to the bone.)