Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Critical / Perilous: Describes a situation of extreme danger or urgency, where immediate action is required to prevent disaster or a severe negative outcome.
   • Dire / Acute: Indicates a state of severe seriousness or intensity, often relating to a crisis.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Tình hình bệnh nhân đang rất nguy cấp. (The patient's condition is very critical.)
  • Khu vực này đang trong tình trạng nguy cấp vì lũ lụt. (This area is in a perilous state due to flooding.)
  • Chúng tôi cần sự giúp đỡ ngay lập tức; đây là tình huống nguy cấp. (We need help immediately; this is a dire situation.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal or official contexts to describe emergencies, medical conditions, security threats, or environmental disasters.
• Can modify nouns like (situation), (condition/state), (stage/phase).

Variants and Related Words

• Khẩn cấp (adj): Urgent, emergency. While emphasizes urgency and time-sensitivity, emphasizes the high level of danger and threat.
  • Tình trạng khẩn cấp (State of emergency)
• Nguy hiểm (adj): Dangerous. is a broader term for danger, while implies danger that has reached a critical, tipping point.

Synonyms

• Critical: Of the greatest importance to the whole.
• Perilous: Full of danger or risk.
• Dire: Extremely serious or urgent.
• Acute: Of a critical or intense degree.

Related Phrases

• Tình trạng nguy cấp: Critical condition / state of peril.
  • Bệnh viện thông báo bệnh nhân đã rơi vào tình trạng nguy cấp. (The hospital announced the patient had fallen into a critical condition.)
• Mức độ nguy cấp: Level of criticality.
  • Mức độ nguy cấp của cơn bão đang tăng lên. (The storm's level of criticality is increasing.)