Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Lacking in strategy or resourcefulness: Describes a person who does not have clever plans, tactics, or effective methods to deal with situations.
   • Without expedient or means: Indicates an absence of practical or immediate solutions to problems.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Anh ta là một kẻ vô mưu, luôn gặp khó khăn trong công việc. (He is a man lacking in strategy, always encountering difficulties in his work.)
  • Đối mặt với tình huống phức tạp, cô ấy tỏ ra hoàn toàn vô mưu. (Faced with a complex situation, she appeared completely without expedient.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in a critical or evaluative context to describe a character flaw, particularly in narratives or analyses of someone's capabilities.

Variants and Related Words

• Bất tài (adj): incompetent, lacking ability.
• Thiếu sáng kiến (adj): lacking initiative or ideas.

Synonyms

• Unresourceful: lacking the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.
• Tactless: lacking adroitness and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues.
• Inept: having or showing no skill; clumsy.

Related Idioms

• While "vô mưu" itself is not typically part of a longer idiom, it conceptually relates to the idea of being "bó tay" (to be helpless, to have one's hands tied), which describes a state of having no solutions.