Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Completely straight and level: Describes something that is perfectly horizontal, flat, or straight without any curves, bends, or inclines.
   • Unmoving and level: Often used to describe water surfaces that are utterly calm, placid, and without ripples.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Mặt hồ phẳng lặng, thuồn thuỗn như một tấm gương. (The lake surface was calm, perfectly level like a mirror.)
  • Con đường chạy thuồn thuỗn về phía chân trời. (The road runs perfectly straight toward the horizon.)
  • Nó nằm thuồn thuỗn trên giường. (He lay completely flat and straight on the bed.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used in a reduplicative form for emphasis (thuồn thuỗn) to intensify the quality of being straight, flat, or level.
• It can describe abstract concepts like a situation or a period of time that is uneventful, smooth, or without fluctuation.
  • Công việc cứ thuồn thuỗn trôi, chẳng có gì mới mẻ. (The work just goes on smoothly, with nothing new.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thẳng thuồn thuỗn (adj): An intensified phrase meaning "perfectly straight" or "dead straight."
  • Cây cột đứng thẳng thuồn thuỗn. (The pillar stands dead straight.)

Synonyms

• Flat: having a level surface without raised areas.
• Level: having a flat, horizontal surface.
• Straight: extending uniformly in one direction without a curve.
• Placid: (of water) calm and undisturbed.

Related Idioms

• Thuồn thuỗn như mặt nước hồ thu: As smooth and level as an autumn lake surface. This idiom emphasizes extreme calmness and flatness.
  • Tâm trạng cô ấy giờ thuồn thuỗn như mặt nước hồ thu. (Her mood is now as placid as an autumn lake.)