Definition

1. 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".

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