Definition

1. Verb:
   • To indulge in pleasure / to revel: To actively seek and engage in sensory or worldly pleasures, often with a connotation of superficial or hedonistic enjoyment.
   • To carouse / to live for pleasure: To spend time in pursuit of amusement and physical gratification, typically implying a lack of higher purpose or moral restraint.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Kẻ giàu có ấy chỉ biết hành lạc, không lo đến tương lai. (That wealthy man only knows how to indulge in pleasure, with no thought for the future.)
  • Hắn sa đà vào con đường hành lạc. (He sank into a path of carousing.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is considered literary and somewhat archaic in modern Vietnamese. It often carries a critical or moralizing tone, describing pleasure-seeking viewed as decadent, wasteful, or morally weak.

Variants and Related Words

• Hưởng lạc (v): To enjoy pleasures. This is a close synonym but may have a slightly less negative connotation than "hành lạc".
  • Triết học hưởng lạc (The philosophy of hedonism).

Synonyms

• To carouse: To drink and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way.
• To revel: To enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially at a party or in a group.
• To indulge: To allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of something.

Related Idioms

• Hành lạc chủ nghĩa: Hedonism; the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good.
  • Lối sống theo chủ nghĩa hành lạc (A lifestyle following hedonism).

verb

1. to rejoice