thảm thiết
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Heart-rending; pitiful; deeply sorrowful: Describes something that evokes intense feelings of sadness, pity, or distress, often to the point of being poignant or moving.
- Earnest and desperate; imploring: Describes a manner of pleading, begging, or lamenting that is full of profound sorrow and urgency.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Tiếng khóc của đứa trẻ nghe rất thảm thiết. (The child's cry sounded very heart-rending.)
- Cô ấy van nài một cách thảm thiết. (She pleaded in a pitiful/earnest manner.)
- Câu chuyện về số phận của họ thật thảm thiết. (The story of their fate is truly sorrowful.)
Advanced Usage
- The word is often used to intensify descriptions of sounds (like crying, screaming) or appeals (like begging, requesting), emphasizing the depth of emotion involved.
- Lời kêu cứu thảm thiết vang lên trong đêm. (A desperate cry for help echoed in the night.)
Variants and Related Words
- Thảm (adj): Sad, tragic, miserable. Often used in compounds like (tragic), (pitiful).
- Thiết tha (adj): Earnest, ardent, passionate. Shares the sense of deep feeling but is not necessarily sorrowful.
Synonyms
- Heart-rending: Causing great sadness or distress.
- Pitiful: Deserving or arousing pity.
- Lamentable: Deplorably bad or unsatisfactory; regrettable.
- Plaintive: Sounding sad and mournful.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Kêu khóc thảm thiết: To wail or cry pitifully.
- Người mẹ kêu khóc thảm thiết bên thi thể con. (The mother wailed pitifully beside her child's body.)
- Van xin thảm thiết: To beg or implore desperately.
- Tù nhân van xin thảm thiết để được tha. (The prisoner begged desperately to be spared.)