Definition

1. Adjective (Reduplicative form):
   • Pleasantly cool and refreshing: Describes a gentle, agreeable, and refreshing coolness, often of weather, wind, or shade. It emphasizes a pleasant sensory feeling of coolness.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Trời hôm nay mát rời rợi. (The weather is pleasantly cool today.)
  • Gió từ sông thổi vào rời rợi. (The wind blowing from the river is refreshingly cool.)
  • Ngồi dưới bóng cây, cảm thấy rời rợi. (Sitting under the tree shade, it feels refreshingly cool.)

Advanced Usage

• "mát rời rợi": This is the most common and natural collocation. The word "rời rợi" is almost exclusively used with "mát" to intensify and poeticize the sensation of coolness.
  • Sau cơn mưa, không khí mát rời rợi. (After the rain, the air is delightfully cool.)

Word Formation Notes

• Reduplicative Form: "Rời rợi" is a reduplicative form (từ láy) of the root "rợi." The reduplication softens the sound and enhances the descriptive quality, making it more vivid and literary. The standalone root "rợi" is rarely used in modern Vietnamese.

Synonyms

• Refreshingly cool: Pleasantly cool and invigorating.
• Delightfully cool: Cool in a way that brings pleasure.

Related Concepts

• Mát mẻ: Cool (a more standard and common term for coolness).
• Mát lạnh: Cold-cool (implies a stronger, colder sensation than "rời rợi").
• Mát dịu: Gently cool (similar in gentleness but less poetic than "rời rợi").

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