sầu thảm
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Mournful: Expressing deep sorrow or grief, often with a sense of loss or tragedy.
- Doleful: Exhibiting sadness or melancholy in a manner that evokes pity or is full of lamentation.
- Lugubrious: Looking or sounding sad, gloomy, and dismal in a way that seems exaggerated or prolonged.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Khuôn mặt anh ấy trông thật sầu thảm. (His face looked truly mournful.)
- Bầu không khí trong căn phòng thật sầu thảm sau tin đó. (The atmosphere in the room was utterly doleful after that news.)
- Những bản nhạc sầu thảm vang lên trong đêm. (Lugubrious music played through the night.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to describe not only people's expressions or moods but also atmospheres, sounds (like music or cries), scenes, or stories that are permeated with profound sadness.
- Cảnh tượng sau trận bão thật sầu thảm. (The scene after the storm was a mournful sight.)
Variants and Related Words
- Sầu muộn (adj): sorrowful, heavy-hearted; focuses more on internal, lingering sadness.
- Thảm thương (adj): pitiful, lamentable; often emphasizes a state that deserves compassion or pity.
- Buồn thảm (adj): sad and grievous; a close synonym combining general sadness with a grievous quality.
Synonyms
- Mournful: Feeling or expressing sorrow, often for someone's death.
- Doleful: Expressing sorrow; mournful.
- Lugubrious: Looking or sounding sad and dismal.
- Melancholy: A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
- Sorrowful: Feeling or showing grief.
Antonyms
- Vui vẻ (adj): joyful, happy.
- Hân hoan (adj): jubilant, overjoyed.
- Rạng rỡ (adj): radiant, beaming.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Sầu thảm bi ai: Profoundly grievous and tragic; describes an extreme depth of sorrow.
- Câu chuyện của họ là một bi kịch sầu thảm bi ai. (Their story is a profoundly grievous tragedy.)
- Nỗi buồn sầu thảm: A deep, grievous sadness.
- Nỗi buồn sầu thảm ấy cứ đeo bám cô. (That doleful sadness kept clinging to her.)