Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling extremely delighted, joyful, and amused: "khoái trá" describes a state of great pleasure, delight, and often a sense of amusement or glee. It implies a deep, satisfying happiness, often from an intellectual or aesthetic experience.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đọc bài thơ hay khoái trá vô cùng. (To feel extremely delighted while reciting a good poem.)
  • Nghe câu chuyện hài ấy, ai cũng thấy khoái trá. (Listening to that funny story, everyone felt delighted and amused.)
  • Cảm giác khoái trá lan tỏa trong lòng sau chiến thắng. (A feeling of delight spread within after the victory.)

Advanced Usage

• "lòng khoái trá": a heart full of delight.
  • Lòng khoái trá khiến ông ấy cười không ngớt. (His heart full of delight made him laugh incessantly.)

Variants and Related Words

• Khoái chí (adj): pleased, delighted (often with a sense of personal satisfaction).
  • Anh ấy khoái chí với kết quả công việc. (He was pleased with the work result.)
• Khoái lạc (adj): pleasurable, hedonistic (often related to sensual pleasure).
  • Đó là một thú vui khoái lạc. (That is a hedonistic pleasure.)

Synonyms

• Vui sướng: to be joyful, happy.
• Hân hoan: to be jubilant, overjoyed.
• Thích thú: to be interested and pleased.

Related Idioms

• "Khoái trá như được mùa": As delighted as having a bumper harvest (to express immense joy).
  • Nghe tin ấy, ông cụ khoái trá như được mùa. (Hearing that news, the old man was as delighted as having a bumper harvest.)

1. (feel) Delighted
   • Đọc bài thơ hay khoái trá vô cùng
     To feel extremely delighted while reciting a good poem