trắng ngồn ngộn
Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely white and abundant: Describes something that is intensely white in color and appears in great quantity, creating a striking, piled-up, or overflowing visual impression. It emphasizes both the purity of the white color and its plentiful, almost overwhelming, presence.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Sau trận bão tuyết, cả thành phố phủ một màu trắng ngồn ngộn. (After the snowstorm, the entire city was covered in an abundantly thick white.)
- Những đám mây trên trời cao trắng ngồn ngộn như bông. (The clouds in the high sky were fluffily and abundantly white like cotton.)
Advanced Usage
- This phrase is highly poetic and descriptive. It is rarely used in everyday conversation and is more common in literary, artistic, or evocative descriptions to paint a vivid picture of a scene filled with whiteness, such as snow, clouds, flowers, or fabric.
Word Formation
- "trắng ngồn ngộn" is a reduplicative phrase. The base adjective "trắng" means . The reduplicative element "ngồn ngộn" intensifies the meaning, adding connotations of being piled high, abundant, and overflowing. The combination creates a single, vivid descriptive unit.
Synonyms
- Dazzling white: intensely bright white.
- Pristine white: pure and unspoiled white.
- Billowing white: white and swelling like waves (often for clouds/smoke).
Notes on Meaning
- The core meaning combines visual characteristics (trắng - ) and a sense of volume or quantity (ngồn ngộn - ). It does not simply mean "very white"; it specifically implies a white that is copious and forms masses or heaps.