Definition

1. Verb:
   • To sigh with deep emotion; to lament: To express a profound feeling of sorrow, regret, or melancholy, often about past events or a general state of affairs.
   • To be moved to sigh with feeling: To experience and outwardly show a complex emotional response, typically mixing sadness, nostalgia, and resignation.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Ông già cảm khái nhìn về quá khứ. (The old man sighed with emotion while looking back at the past.)
  • Cô ấy cảm khái về thời thanh xuân đã qua. (She lamented her bygone youth.)
  • Nhà văn cảm khái về sự thay đổi của quê hương. (The writer sighed with feeling over the changes in his homeland.)

Advanced Usage

• "cảm khái vô cùng": to be infinitely moved and melancholic.
  • Nghe câu chuyện của bà, tôi cảm khái vô cùng. (Hearing her story, I was deeply moved and melancholic.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thương cảm (v): to pity, to feel compassion for.

  • Tôi thương cảm hoàn cảnh của cô ấy. (I pity her situation.)

• Bi cảm (adj): sorrowful, tragic (often describing a mood or artistic tone).

  • Bộ phim mang một vẻ bi cảm. (The film has a sorrowful tone.)

Synonyms

• Lament: to express sorrow or regret.
• Bemoan: to express discontent or sorrow over.
• Sigh over: to express feeling with a sigh.

Related Idioms

• Cảm khái thế sự: to lament the ways of the world; to sigh over the state of human affairs.
  • Cụ già thường ngồi uống trà và cảm khái thế sự. (The old man often sits drinking tea and lamenting the ways of the world.)

verb

1. To grieve
   • cảm khái về nỗi nước mất nhà tan
     to grieve over the occupation of one's country and the dispersal of one's family