Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Slender and graceful: Describes a person's physique, typically a woman's, as being slim, well-proportioned, and elegantly thin.
   • Svelte: Having a gracefully slender and attractive figure.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cô ấy có dáng người thon thả. (She has a slender and graceful figure.)
  • Vóc dáng thon thả rất phù hợp với kiểu váy này. (A svelte figure is very suitable for this dress style.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is almost exclusively used to describe the human body, particularly to compliment a woman's figure. It carries a positive, aesthetic connotation of natural and attractive slimness, distinct from mere thinness which could be neutral or negative.

Variants and Related Words

• Thon (adj): slender, slim. This is the root adjective, while "thon thả" is a reduplicative form that adds a nuance of gracefulness.
  • Chân thon (slender legs).

Synonyms

• Slender: Gracefully thin.
• Svelte: Slender and elegant in figure.
• Willowy: Tall, slender, and graceful.

Antonyms

• Mập: plump, chubby.
• Đầy đặn: full-figured.
• Béo: fat, overweight.

Related Idioms

• Dáng thon thả: a slender and graceful silhouette.
  • Cô ấy luôn tự hào về dáng thon thả của mình. (She is always proud of her slender and graceful silhouette.)