nặng lòng
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Feeling deep concern or worry: Describes a state of being heavily preoccupied, troubled, or deeply anxious about someone or something.
- Paying great attention to; being very mindful of: Indicates giving significant mental focus, care, or consideration to a particular matter or person.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Anh ấy rất nặng lòng về tương lai của công ty. (He feels deeply concerned about the company's future.)
- Bà luôn nặng lòng với việc học hành của các cháu. (She always pays great attention to her grandchildren's studies.)
- Đừng nặng lòng về chuyện nhỏ ấy nữa. (Don't be so troubled by that small matter anymore.)
Advanced Usage
- "nặng lòng với/về/trước...": This structure is used to specify the object of concern or attention.
- Cô ấy nặng lòng trước cảnh ngộ của đứa trẻ mồ côi. (She felt profound concern upon seeing the orphaned child's plight.)
- "lòng nặng trĩu": A more literary variant expressing a heart heavy with worry or sorrow, often used in poetry or expressive writing.
- Lòng nặng trĩu ưu tư. (A heart heavy with worry.)
Variants and Related Words
- Bận lòng (adj): To be bothered or preoccupied (often with a slightly lesser degree of intensity than "nặng lòng").
- Ông ấy bận lòng với quá nhiều việc. (He is preoccupied with too many things.)
- Trăn trở (verb): To ponder deeply, to be restless with worry or thought (emphasizes active, ongoing mental turmoil).
- Anh ấy trăn trở nhiều đêm về quyết định đó. (He tossed and turned for many nights over that decision.)
- Ưu tư (noun/adj): Worry, anxiety; pensive (a more formal or literary term for worry).
Synonyms
- Lo lắng sâu sắc: To worry deeply.
- Để tâm nhiều đến: To pay much mind to.
- Canh cánh trong lòng: To have something weighing on one's mind (idiomatic).
Related Idioms
- "Nặng lòng nặng dạ": An emphatic form reinforcing the meaning of being deeply concerned or burdened in heart and mind.
- Nghe tin ấy, ông cứ nặng lòng nặng dạ mãi. (Upon hearing that news, he remained deeply burdened and concerned.)
- "Mang nặng đẻ đau": Literally "to carry a heavy pregnancy and give birth in pain." This idiom about motherhood is conceptually related in its use of "nặng" (heavy) to describe a profound burden or concern, but it is not a direct variant of "nặng lòng".
- Feel deep concern in, pay great attention to