Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Heavy-laden; weighed down: Describes something bending, sagging, or drooping downward due to a heavy load or weight.
   • Figuratively heavy; burdensome: Used to describe a feeling, mood, or atmosphere that is oppressively heavy or laden with emotion.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cành cây trĩu quả. (The tree branch is heavy-laden with fruit.)
  • Đôi vai anh ấy trĩu xuống vì mệt mỏi. (His shoulders sagged from weariness.)
  • Bầu không khí trong phòng thật trĩu nặng. (The atmosphere in the room was oppressively heavy.)

Advanced Usage

• "trĩu trịt": An intensified form meaning very heavily laden, completely weighed down.

  • Cây bưởi sau vườn trĩu trịt những quả chín. (The grapefruit tree in the backyard is completely weighed down with ripe fruit.)

• "trĩu nặng": Often used for abstract burdens, meaning deeply heavy or laden.

  • Trái tim cô ấy trĩu nặng nỗi buồn. (Her heart was heavy with sorrow.)

Variants and Related Words

• Trĩu xuống (phrasal verb): to sag down, to bend down under weight.
  • Cành hoa trĩu xuống vì sương đêm. (The flower branch bent down from the night dew.)

Synonyms

• Laden: loaded or weighed down.
• Sagging: bending or hanging downward under pressure.
• Burdened: bearing a heavy load, physically or emotionally.

Related Idioms

• Nặng trĩu: (an idiom reinforcing heaviness) very heavy, profoundly burdensome.
  • Gánh nặng gia đình đè lên vai anh ấy nặng trĩu. (The family burden on his shoulders was profoundly heavy.)