Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Piercingly cold, bitterly cold, biting cold: Describes an intense, penetrating cold that causes physical discomfort, often feeling as if it cuts through clothing or skin. It emphasizes the sharp, severe quality of the cold.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Trời đông Bắc Âu rét buốt. (The weather in Northern Europe is piercingly cold.)
  • Cô ấy run lên vì cơn gió rét buốt. (She shivered because of the biting cold wind.)
  • Nước ở suối ngọn núi này rét buốt. (The water in this mountain stream is bitterly cold.)

Advanced Usage

• "rét buốt xương": bone-chillingly cold, cold that penetrates to the bones.
  • Sáng sớm ở vùng cao nguyên, cái lạnh rét buốt xương. (In the early morning on the highlands, the cold is bone-chilling.)

Variants and Related Words

• Rét (adj/n): cold, chilly. A more general term for cold weather or feeling.
  • Trời chuyển rét. (The weather is turning cold.)
• Buốt (adj): sharp, piercing, stinging (often used for pain or intense cold).
  • Đau buốt (sharp pain), lạnh buốt (piercing cold).
• Lạnh buốt (adj): synonym for , meaning piercingly cold.
• Giá rét (n/adj): freezing cold, frosty cold.
  • Đợt giá rét kéo dài. (The freezing cold spell lasts.)

Synonyms

• Biting cold: cold that seems to bite the skin.
• Nipping cold: cold that nips or pinches.
• Glacial: extremely cold, like ice.
• Frigid: very cold in temperature.

Related Phrases

• Gió rét buốt: a piercingly cold wind, a biting wind.
  • Gió rét buốt thổi từ phía bắc. (A piercingly cold wind blows from the north.)
• Cái rét buốt: the piercing cold (used as a noun phrase).
  • Cái rét buốt của mùa đông miền Bắc. (The piercing cold of the Northern winter.)

1. Piercingly cold