Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Storm-like, tempestuous: Describes something possessing the immense, overwhelming, and often destructive force and momentum of a rainstorm or typhoon.
   • Fierce, powerful, and sweeping: Used figuratively to characterize actions, movements, or forces that are exceptionally vigorous, rapid, and large-scale.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cuộc tiến công diễn ra với sức mạnh vũ bão. (The attack unfolded with a tempestuous force.)
  • Phong trào cách mạng phát triển như vũ bão. (The revolutionary movement developed with storm-like intensity.)
  • Họ phải đối mặt với làn sóng chỉ trích vũ bão. (They had to face a fierce and sweeping wave of criticism.)

Advanced Usage

• "thế như vũ bão": momentum like a storm; an irresistible, overwhelming force or trend.
  • Đội bóng ấy đang có thế như vũ bão. (That football team currently has an irresistible, storm-like momentum.)
• "sức mạnh vũ bão": tempestuous/storm-force strength.
  • Sức mạnh vũ bão của thiên nhiên thật đáng sợ. (The tempestuous strength of nature is truly fearsome.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bão (n): storm, typhoon. The core element of the compound.
• Vũ (n, literary): rain. The other element of the compound.
• Bão táp (n/phr): storm and gale; often used similarly in figurative contexts (e.g., - revolutionary storm).

Synonyms

• Mãnh liệt: violent, intense, fierce.
• Dữ dội: fierce, violent, severe.
• Ào ạt: torrential, pouring, sweeping (often for movements or actions).
• Cuồng phong: hurricane-force, violent storm (can be used figuratively).

Notes on Meaning

• The term is almost exclusively used in a figurative sense in modern Vietnamese to describe powerful, large-scale phenomena (social, political, military, or even in sports), not literal weather. Its literal meaning ("rain and storm") is archaic.
• It conveys a sense of unstoppable power, high speed, and large impact.

adj

1. rain-storm