rối rắm

Thân thiện

Đống dây điện sau máy tính trông thật rối rắm.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Very complicated, involved: Describes a situation, issue, or matter that is extremely complex, tangled, and difficult to understand, analyze, or resolve.
   • Tangled, knotty: Can describe something physically or metaphorically intertwined in a confusing, disorderly manner.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Tình hình chính trị ở nước đó rất rối rắm. (The political situation in that country is very complicated.)
  • Vụ án này có nhiều tình tiết rối rắm. (This case has many complicated details.)
  • Sợi dây bị rối rắm không thể gỡ ra. (The rope is tangled and cannot be undone.)

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe abstract concepts like relationships, procedures, or problems that are convoluted.
  • Mối quan hệ giữa họ ngày càng trở nên rối rắm. (The relationship between them is becoming increasingly complicated.)

Variants and Related Words

• Rối (adj): tangled, messy, confused. A simpler form implying disorder.
  • Tóc cô ấy bị rối. (Her hair is tangled.)
• Làm rối rắm (verb phrase): to complicate, to entangle.
  • Đừng làm rối rắm vấn đề lên. (Don't complicate the issue.)

Synonyms

• Complicated: involving many parts or aspects that are difficult to understand.
• Convoluted: extremely complex and difficult to follow.
• Involved: complicated in structure; intricate.
• Tangled: twisted together in a confused mass.

Related Idioms

• Rối như tơ vò: as tangled as a silk skein; a state of extreme confusion or complication.
  • Công việc giấy tờ rối như tơ vò. (The paperwork is as tangled as a silk skein.)
• Rối rắm mất lối: so complicated that one loses one's way; an inextricable mess.
  • Câu chuyện của anh ta kể rối rắm mất lối. (The story he told is an inextricable mess.)

Học thuật

1. Very complicated, involved