Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Quickly accomplished; rapidly successful: Describes something achieved, completed, or built in a very short amount of time, often implying haste and a lack of thorough, long-term foundation.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đây chỉ là một kế hoạch tốc thành, cần xem xét kỹ lưỡng hơn. (This is only a quickly drafted plan; it needs more careful consideration.)
  • Sự nghiệp tốc thành của anh ấy khiến nhiều người ngưỡng mộ. (His rapidly successful career makes many people admire him.)
  • Công trình xây dựng tốc thành thường tiềm ẩn nhiều rủi ro. (Quickly built constructions often harbor many risks.)

Advanced Usage

• The term often carries a slightly critical or cautionary nuance, suggesting that something done too quickly may lack durability, depth, or proper planning. It contrasts with achievements built steadily over time.

Synonyms

• Hastily accomplished: Done with excessive speed or urgency.
• Rapidly successful: Achieving success in a very short period.
• Quickly built: Constructed or established in a short time.

Related Idioms

• "Tốc thành tốc bại": This common idiom means "quickly achieved, quickly lost" or "easy come, easy go." It emphasizes the fragility and impermanence of things accomplished with undue haste.
  • Mối quan hệ tốc thành đó cuối cùng cũng tốc bại. (That hastily formed relationship ultimately ended just as quickly.)