đầy rẫy

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Khu chợ này đầy rẫy rác thải.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Abundant, plentiful, teeming with: Describes a state where something exists in very large quantities, often to the point of being excessive or overwhelming. It implies a sense of being filled or saturated.
   • Rife, rampant: Indicates that something (often negative or undesirable) is widespread and common.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Thành phố này đầy rẫy cơ hội việc làm. (This city is teeming with job opportunities.)
  • Trên mạng xã hội đầy rẫy thông tin sai lệch. (Social media is rife with misinformation.)
  • Khu chợ đầy rẫy hàng hóa đủ loại. (The market is filled with all kinds of goods.)

Advanced Usage

• Used to emphasize excess or negative connotation: While it can describe neutral abundance, "đầy rẫy" is frequently used to highlight an excessive, often troublesome, prevalence of something.
  • Lịch sử đầy rẫy những cuộc chiến tranh. (History is riddled with wars.)
  • Văn phòng đầy rẫy giấy tờ lộn xộn. (The office is overflowing with messy documents.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đầy dẫy: This is a variant form with the same meaning as "đầy rẫy". It is less common in modern usage but appears in some dictionaries as the root form.
• Đầy ắp: (adj) Full to the brim, packed. Focuses more on a container or space being completely full, often with a positive or neutral connotation.
  • Chiếc giỏ đầy ắp trái cây. (The basket is full of fruit.)
• Tràn ngập: (adj/v) To flood, to overflow, to be inundated. Can describe both physical flooding and metaphorical abundance.
  • Ánh nắng tràn ngập căn phòng. (Sunlight floods the room.)

Synonyms

• Nhiều vô kể: Countless, innumerable.
• Lan tràn: To spread, to be pervasive.
• Thừa mứa: In excess, more than enough (can imply waste).

Related Phrases (Collocations)

• Đầy rẫy nguy hiểm: Full of dangers, fraught with peril.
  • Con đường núi đầy rẫy nguy hiểm. (The mountain road is fraught with danger.)
• Đầy rẫy sai sót: Riddled with errors.
  • Báo cáo đầy rẫy sai sót. (The report is riddled with errors.)

Related Idioms

• Đầy rẫy như nấm sau mưa: (As plentiful as mushrooms after rain) Used to describe something that appears quickly and in great numbers.
  • Cửa hàng mới mọc lên đầy rẫy như nấm sau mưa. (New shops sprang up like mushrooms after the rain.)

Học thuật

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