mất giống

Definition

1. Adjective (vulgar, colloquial):
   • To be without offspring, to have no surviving children: Used to describe a person or family line that has no children or whose children have all died, implying the end of that lineage.
   • To be extinct (of a lineage): A crude term indicating that a family's bloodline has died out.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Nhà họ ấy mất giống rồi. (That family line has died out.)
  • Ông ta già rồi mà vẫn mất giống. (He is old and still has no offspring.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is considered vulgar and insensitive. It is typically used in informal, critical, or derogatory speech, often to insult or express contempt for someone's failure to continue their family line.

Variants and Related Words

• Tuyệt tự (v): To be without an heir, to have no descendant to continue the family line. (A more formal, literary term).

  • Lo sợ tuyệt tự là nỗi ám ảnh của nhiều người xưa. (The fear of having no heir was an obsession for many people in the past.)

• Tuyệt hậu (v): Similar to "tuyệt tự," meaning to have no posterity or descendants.

  • Dòng họ đó có nguy cơ tuyệt hậu. (That clan is at risk of having no descendants.)

Synonyms

• Childless: Having no children. (Neutral term).
• Without issue: Having no descendants. (Formal, legal term).
• Lineage is extinct: The family line has ended.

Related Idioms

• Tuyệt tử tuyệt tôn: A classical idiom meaning to have no sons or grandsons, thus ending the lineage.
  • Cụ lo lắng cảnh tuyệt tử tuyệt tôn. (The elder worried about the scenario of having no sons or grandsons.)