thượt
Definition
Adjective: - Very long and straight; stretched out rigidly: Describes something that is excessively long, straight, and often stiff or rigid in appearance or posture. - Lying fully extended: Describes the act of lying down stretched out at full length, often implying a lack of movement or a rigid posture.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Sợi dây dài thượt. (The rope is very long and straight.)
- Ông ấy nằm thượt ra giường. (He lay stretched out rigidly on the bed.)
- Cô ấy có khuôn mặt dài thượt. (She has a very long, drawn face.)
Advanced Usage
- The word "thượt" is very rarely used alone in modern Vietnamese. Its primary function is as a descriptive complement following an adjective (like ) or a verb (like ), intensifying the meaning to imply an extreme, rigid, or excessive state.
- It is most commonly found in the reduplicated form "thườn thượt", which intensifies the meaning further, often describing something as being very long and dragging or, when related to sighing, as a repeated, drawn-out action.
Variants and Related Words
- Thườn thượt (adj/adv): A reduplicated form of .
- Describes something as being very long, continuous, and dragging.
- Con đường thườn thượt. (The road is very long and winding.)
- Describes the sound of repeated, long sighs.
- Thở dài thườn thượt. (To sigh long and repeatedly.)
Synonyms
- Elongated: having been lengthened.
- Stretched out: extended to full length.
- Ramrod straight: perfectly straight and stiff.
Related Idioms
- Thở dài thườn thượt: to sigh long and heavily, one sigh after another.
- Nghe tin buồn, anh ấy chỉ biết thở dài thườn thượt. (Hearing the sad news, he could only sigh long and heavily.)