đen kịt
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely black, pitch-black: Describes something that is completely and intensely black, often with a sense of depth or impenetrability, like thick smoke, a moonless night, or dense soot.
- Inky-black: Having the deep, dark, and often uniform color of ink.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Bầu trời đêm không trăng đen kịt. (The moonless night sky was pitch-black.)
- Khói từ đám cháy bốc lên đen kịt. (The smoke from the fire rose, inky-black.)
- Căn phòng không có cửa sổ, tối đen kịt. (The windowless room was utterly dark and black.)
Advanced Usage
- "đen kịt như mực": as black as ink. This simile emphasizes the depth of the black color.
- Mái tóc cô ấy dài và đen kịt như mực. (Her long hair was as black as ink.)
- "đen kịt một màu": uniformly pitch-black. Used to describe an area or object with no variation in its deep black color.
- Sau cơn bão, cả bầu trời đen kịt một màu. (After the storm, the entire sky was uniformly pitch-black.)
Variants and Related Words
- Đen (adj): Black. The base word, less intense than "đen kịt".
- Con mèo đen. (The black cat.)
- Đen thui (adj): Also means very black, often used interchangeably with "đen kịt" but can sometimes imply a dull, sooty black.
- Cái nồi bị cháy đen thui. (The pot was burnt black.)
- Đen nhẻm (adj): Smudged with black, grimy. Focuses on being dirtied or stained black.
- Tay nó đen nhẻm vì than. (His hands were grimy with coal.)
Synonyms
- Tối om (adj): Pitch-dark, very dark (focuses more on the absence of light than the color).
- Trong hang động tối om. (It's pitch-dark inside the cave.)
- Đen sì (adj): Jet-black, very black (similar intensity to "đen kịt").
Related Phrases / Idioms
- Tương lai đen kịt: A pitch-black/dark future. An idiom meaning a future that looks hopeless, grim, or full of difficulty.
- Sau khi công ty phá sản, tương lai của họ có vẻ đen kịt. (After the company went bankrupt, their future looked pitch-black.)
- Black, inky-black