rối mắt
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Visually confusing or cluttered: Describes something that appears messy, disordered, or overly complex to look at, causing difficulty in distinguishing individual elements or focusing.
- Dazzling in a disorienting way: Can refer to patterns, colors, or arrangements that are so busy or intricate that they strain or confuse the eyes.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Phòng làm việc bày quá nhiều đồ, trông rất rối mắt. (The office has too many things on display; it looks very visually cluttered.)
- Hoa văn trên vải này rối mắt quá. (The pattern on this fabric is too dizzying/busy.)
- Cách trình bày slide với nhiều font chữ khác nhau khiến người xem rối mắt. (The slide presentation with many different fonts makes the viewers' eyes confused.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to critique design, layout, or visual presentation where simplicity and clarity are needed.
- Often implies a subjective judgment that something is aesthetically unpleasant or functionally impairing due to its visual complexity.
Variants and Related Words
- Rối (adj): tangled, messy, complicated. Can refer to situations, hair, or thoughts.
- Sợi dây bị rối. (The string is tangled.)
- Rối ren (adj): chaotic, messy (often for situations or affairs).
- Tình hình chính trị rối ren. (The political situation is chaotic.)
Synonyms
- Cluttered: filled with too many things, messy.
- Busy: (of a design) having too much detail.
- Dazzling: so bright or intricate as to confuse the sight temporarily.
- Confusing to the eye: causing visual difficulty.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Rối như tơ vò: (lit. tangled like silkworm thread) - an idiom meaning extremely tangled or complicated, often used for situations or thoughts, not solely visual.
- Công việc này rối như tơ vò. (This work is incredibly complicated.)
- While not a phrasal verb, "rối mắt" itself functions as a common descriptive phrase.
- In a jumble, in a muddle
- Bày biện nhiều thứ quá, trông rối mắtToo many things were in display and looked a frightful jumble