Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having more than enough, abundant: Describes a state where one possesses more than what is necessary for basic needs, often implying comfort and lack of financial worry.
   • Comfortable, well-off: Refers to a comfortable living condition, not necessarily wealthy but free from want.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Gia đình họ sống một cuộc sống khá dư dả. (Their family lives a quite comfortable life.)
  • Sau nhiều năm làm việc chăm chỉ, cuối cùng anh ấy cũng có khoản tiền tiết kiệm dư dả. (After many years of hard work, he finally has a comfortable amount of savings.)
  • Với mức lương mới, cô ấy cảm thấy dư dả hơn để chi tiêu cho những sở thích cá nhân. (With her new salary, she feels more comfortable spending on personal hobbies.)

Advanced Usage

• "sống dư dả": to live comfortably/affluently.
  • Ông bà tôi luôn dạy cách chi tiêu để có thể sống dư dả về già. (My grandparents always taught how to spend to be able to live comfortably in old age.)
• "dư dả về...": to be abundant/well-off in terms of...
  • Đất nước này dư dả về tài nguyên thiên nhiên. (This country is abundant in natural resources.)

Variants and Related Words

• Dư thừa (adj): surplus, excess (often for tangible things, can have a neutral or slightly negative connotation of waste).
  • Lượng thức ăn dư thừa sau bữa tiệc. (The surplus food after the party.)
• Dồi dào (adj): plentiful, abundant (often used for abstract qualities like energy, health, or resources).
  • Sức khỏe dồi dào. (Abundant health.)
• Khá giả (adj): well-to-do, prosperous (often implies a higher economic level than "dư dả").
  • Một gia đình khá giả trong vùng. (A well-to-do family in the area.)

Synonyms

• Đầy đủ: sufficient, adequate (meeting needs, but not necessarily exceeding them).
• Thừa thãi: more than enough, in excess (can imply wastefulness).
• Phong lưu: affluent, well-off (literary, often with a connotation of elegance).

Related Phrases

• Dư ăn dư để: (idiomatic) having more than enough to eat and to spare; very comfortable.
  • Công việc kinh doanh phát đạt giúp họ dư ăn dư để. (Their thriving business helps them live in great comfort.)

Related Idioms

• No ấm dư dả: (idiom) having enough warmth and food, and to spare; a state of basic comfort and security.
  • Ước mơ của nhiều người là một cuộc sống no ấm dư dả. (The dream of many people is a life of warmth, fullness, and comfort.)

1. (địa phương) Having enough and to spare, comfortable
   • Sống tương đối dư dả
     To be in relatively comfortable circumstances