tệ

Thân thiện

Hôm nay cô bé vui tệ.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • Evil; social evil: A relatively widespread bad habit or harmful practice in society.

2. Adjective:

   • Bad; poor; terrible: Of low quality, unfavorable condition, or negative character.
   • Mean; lousy; heartless: Behaving in an unkind, inconsiderate, or morally bad way towards others.

3. Adverb (colloquial):

   • Extremely; terribly; awfully: Used after an adjective to intensify its meaning, often expressing a high degree.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Cần bài trừ các tệ nạn xã hội. (We need to eradicate social evils.)
• Adjective:
  • Thời tiết hôm nay thật tệ. (The weather today is really bad.)
  • Anh ta đối xử rất tệ với nhân viên. (He treats his employees very poorly.)
• Adverb:
  • Bộ phim đó hay tệ! (That movie is awfully good!)

Advanced Usage

• "tệ hại": dreadful, disastrous (stronger than "tệ").
  • Tình hình kinh tế đang trở nên tệ hại. (The economic situation is becoming dreadful.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tệ nạn (n): social evil, vice.
  • Cờ bạc là một tệ nạn. (Gambling is a vice.)
• Tệ bạc (adj): ungrateful, heartless (emphasizes lack of gratitude or loyalty).
  • Đứa con tệ bạc với cha mẹ. (The child is ungrateful to the parents.)

Synonyms

• Noun: vice, scourge.
• Adjective: bad, poor, awful, lousy, mean.
• Adverb: extremely, terribly, very.

Related Idioms

• Tệ như ma lem / Tệ hơn ma lem: To be extremely bad or terrible (comparing to something proverbial).
  • Dịch vụ ở đây tệ hơn ma lem. (The service here is worse than terrible.)

Học thuật

noun

1. evil, social evil

adj

1. bad, poor heartless mighty