Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Crippled; disabled: Having a physical or mental condition that significantly impairs normal bodily functions, movement, or the ability to perform everyday activities. It describes a state of permanent or long-term disability.
   • Incapacitated: Rendered unable to function in a typical or normal manner due to an injury, defect, or illness.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau tai nạn, ông ấy bị tàn tật. (After the accident, he became disabled.)
  • Cần có nhiều cơ sở vật chất hơn để hỗ trợ người tàn tật. (More facilities are needed to support disabled people.)
  • Một chấn thương cột sống có thể khiến một người tàn tật. (A spinal injury can cripple a person.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in formal, medical, or social contexts to describe a condition of significant impairment. In contemporary usage, more neutral terms like "khuyết tật" (disability) are increasingly preferred in social and policy discourse.
• It can function attributively (e.g., - disabled person) or predicatively (e.g., - to be disabled).

Variants and Related Words

• Tật nguyền (adj/n): Disabled; disability. A close synonym, often used interchangeably with "tàn tật."
• Khuyết tật (adj/n): Disability; impaired. A modern, often preferred term focusing on the lack or deficiency of a function.
• Bị tàn tật (verb phrase): To be(come) disabled.

Synonyms

• Disabled: Having a physical or mental condition that limits movements, senses, or activities.
• Crippled: Severely damaged or impaired, especially in terms of mobility.
• Handicapped: Having a condition that restricts a person's ability to function (note: this term is sometimes considered dated or less preferred).

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Tàn nhưng không phế: Disabled but not useless. An idiom highlighting that a physical disability does not equate to a lack of capability or spirit.
  • Anh ấy là tấm gương sáng về tinh thần "tàn nhưng không phế". (He is a shining example of the spirit of being "disabled but not useless.")

adj

1. crippled