lục tục

lục tục

Mọi người lục tục bước vào hội trường từ cánh cửa lớn.

Definition

  1. Adverb:

    • One after another / in succession: Describes a series of people or things arriving, leaving, or happening in a steady, continuous, but unhurried and somewhat scattered sequence, not all at once.

  2. Adjective (descriptive):

    • Scattered / straggling: Used to describe a group whose members are arriving or acting in a dispersed, unorganized manner over a period of time.
Usage Examples

  • Adverb:

    • Khách mời bắt đầu lục tục đến. (The guests began to arrive one after another.)
    • Học sinh lục tục rời khỏi lớp. (The students left the classroom in a straggling manner.)

  • Adjective:

    • Đám đông lục tục kéo về làng. (A scattered crowd trickled back to the village.)
Advanced Usage
  • The word often conveys a sense of informal, unceremonious, or gradual movement without a single starting point. It implies a lack of formal organization or simultaneity.
Variants and Related Words
  • Lục đục (adj): This is a different word meaning discord, internal conflict, or friction within a group.
    • Gia đình họ đang lục đục. (Their family is having internal strife.)
Synonyms
  • Successively: in a consecutive sequence.
  • Trickling in: arriving or leaving slowly and in small numbers.
  • Straggling: moving in a scattered, irregular group.
Related Idioms
  • While "lục tục" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, its usage paints a vivid picture of gradual, sequential activity. A related concept is "đến tấp nập", which means to arrive in a bustling, crowded manner—the opposite of "lục tục."