颓 tuí
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颓废
tuífèi
decadent; dispirited; dejected
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Example phrases
- 长期失业让他一度变得颓废，直到朋友鼓励他重新学习技能。 Chángqī shīyè ràng tā yídù biàn de tuífèi, zhídào péngyou gǔlì tā chóngxīn xuéxí jìnéng. Long-term unemployment once made him dejected, until his friends encouraged him to learn new skills.
- 失恋以后他就一直很颓废，天天待在家里打游戏。 Shīliàn yǐhòu tā jiù yīzhí hěn tuífèi, tiāntiān dāi zài jiālǐ dǎ yóuxì. After the breakup he has been listless the whole time, staying home every day playing games.
- 他最近工作不顺利，整个人显得很颓废。 Tā zuìjìn gōngzuò bù shùnlì, zhěng gè rén xiǎnde hěn tuífèi. Things have not been going well for him at work recently, and he seems very dejected.
Related words
- 半途而废 bàntú'érfèi to give up halfway
- 报废 bàofèi to scrap; to be discarded as unusable
- 废 fèi to abolish; useless; wasted
- 废除 fèichú to abolish; to repeal
- 废话 fèihuà nonsense; empty talk; to talk nonsense
- 废品 fèipǐn waste product; discarded item
- 废弃 fèiqì to abandon; to discard
- 废寝忘食 fèiqǐnwàngshí to neglect sleep and food; to be completely absorbed
- 废物 fèiwù waste; useless thing or person
- 废墟 fèixū ruins
- 作废 zuòfèi to invalidate; to become void
- 朝三暮四 zhāosānmùsì to be fickle; to change one's mind constantly