đông nghịt

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Chợ hoa ngày Tết đông nghịt người.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely crowded; packed; teeming: Describes a place or scene with an immense, dense, and tightly packed multitude of people or things, often to the point of being difficult to move through.
   • Swarming; jam-packed: Emphasizes an overwhelming and chaotic density.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đường phố đông nghịt người vào giờ cao điểm. (The streets are jam-packed with people during rush hour.)
  • Hội chợ đông nghịt những gian hàng và khách tham quan. (The fair is teeming with stalls and visitors.)
  • Sân bay đông nghịt hành khách dịp lễ. (The airport is swarming with passengers during the holiday.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in its reduplicative form "đông nghìn nghịt" to intensify the meaning of extreme, countless multitudes.
  • Chợ hoa xuân đông nghìn nghịt, chen chúc không lối đi. (The spring flower market is incredibly packed, jostling with no way to walk.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đông đúc (adj): Crowded, populous. (Less intense than "đông nghịt").
  • Thành phố này rất đông đúc. (This city is very crowded.)
• Chen chúc (v): To jostle, to push and shove in a crowd.
  • Mọi người chen chúc nhau để mua vé. (People jostled each other to buy tickets.)

Synonyms

• Packed: Filled with a large number of people or things.
• Teeming: Abundantly filled with moving beings.
• Swarming: Moving in a dense, busy mass.
• Jam-packed: Extremely full and crowded.

Related Idioms

• Đông như kiến: As crowded as ants. (A simile for a dense, swarming crowd).
  • Bãi biển đông như kiến vào mùa hè. (The beach is as crowded as ants in the summer.)

Học thuật

1. Compact
   • Đám người đông nghịt
     A compact crowd
   • Đông nghìn nghịt (láy, ý mức độ nhiều)