Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Exposed, open, lacking cover or shelter: Describes a place or area that is open, unprotected, and without things to provide cover or concealment.
   • Empty, desolate, barren: Describes a place that feels vast and empty, often causing a sense of loneliness or bleakness.
   • Feeling empty, hollow, forlorn: Describes an emotional state of feeling a profound emptiness, often after a significant loss, making one feel alone and desolate.

Usage Examples

• Describing a physical space:
  • Cánh đồng trống trải và gió thổi mạnh. (The field was exposed and the wind blew strongly.)
  • Ngôi nhà đứng một mình trên mảnh đất trống trải. (The house stood alone on the barren piece of land.)
• Describing an emotional state:
  • Sau khi con cái ra ở riêng, căn nhà cảm thấy thật trống trải. (After the children moved out, the house felt so empty.)
  • Tâm hồn cô ấy trống trải sau cái chết của chồng. (Her soul felt desolate after her husband's death.)

Advanced Usage

• "trống trải đến rợn người": so empty/desolate it's frightening.
  • Khu phố cũ về đêm trống trải đến rợn người. (The old neighborhood at night is so desolate it's frightening.)
• "nỗi trống trải trong lòng": the emptiness in one's heart.
  • Anh ấy không thể lấp đầy nỗi trống trải trong lòng. (He couldn't fill the emptiness in his heart.)

Variants and Related Words

• Trống vắng (adj): empty, vacant, deserted (often for places; can imply a less intense emotional emptiness than ).
  • Căn phòng trống vắng không một bóng người. (The room was empty without a soul in sight.)
• Trơ trọi (adj): isolated, standing alone, stark (emphasizes being solitary and unprotected).
  • Cây cầu cũ trơ trọi giữa cánh đồng. (The old bridge stood isolated in the middle of the field.)
• Hoang vắng (adj): deserted, desolate, uninhabited (focuses on lack of people and activity).
  • Con đường mòn hoang vắng. (The deserted trail.)

Synonyms

• Hiu quạnh: lonely, desolate (often for places, conveying silence and solitude).
• Quạnh hiu: bleak, lonely, desolate (similar to , with a poetic tone).
• Bỏ không: left empty, abandoned (focuses on the state of being unused).

Related Phrases / Idioms

(Note: "trống trải" itself is often used in descriptive phrases rather than as part of fixed idioms.) - Lòng trống rỗng: an empty heart (a common phrase describing emotional emptiness, using the near-synonym trống rỗng). - Cô ấy cảm thấy một nỗi lòng trống rỗng khó tả. (She felt an indescribable emptiness in her heart.)

adj

1. exposed, spacious desolate, empty