Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Mawkish, maudlin: Describes an excessively sentimental, emotional, or weak-willed quality, often to the point of being cloying or lacking strength. It can refer to a state of being overly delicate, feeble, or prone to melancholy.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Tính cách của nhân vật đó quá ủy mị. (The personality of that character is too mawkish.)
  • Anh ấy viết những vần thơ ủy mị về tình yêu đã mất. (He writes maudlin poetry about lost love.)
  • Chúng ta cần lối sống mạnh mẽ, không nên ủy mị. (We need a strong lifestyle, not a feeble/sentimental one.)

Advanced Usage

• "vẻ ủy mị": a mawkish/maudlin appearance or demeanor.
  • Cô ấy có vẻ ủy mị sau khi xem bộ phim buồn. (She had a maudlin look after watching the sad movie.)
• "tâm trạng ủy mị": a mawkish/sentimental mood.
  • Đừng để mình chìm trong tâm trạng ủy mị. (Don't let yourself sink into a maudlin mood.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ủy mị is primarily used as an adjective. There are no direct noun or verb variants of this exact word.
• Related Concept: Yếu đuối (adj): weak, feeble (shares the connotation of lack of strength but without the specific sentimental overtone).

Synonyms

• Sướt mướt (adj): tearful, lachrymose (often used for being overly tearful or sentimental).
• Yếu ớt (adj): weak, feeble (focuses on physical or moral weakness).
• Sầu muộn (adj): sorrowful, melancholic (focuses on sadness rather than excessive sentimentality).

Idioms and Phrases

• While ủy mị itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it is used to describe styles or behaviors:
  • văn chương ủy mị: mawkish/maudlin literature.
  • lối sống ủy mị: a weak/sentimental way of life.

adj

1. mawkish, maudlin