đài các

Thân thiện

Cô ấy ăn mặc và đi đứng rất đài các khiến mọi người khó gần.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Snobbish, affected: Behaving in a way that shows one believes one is superior to others, often through pretentious or excessively refined manners and speech.
   • Pretentious, putting on airs: Acting in a manner intended to impress or appear more important, elegant, or sophisticated than one actually is.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cô ấy ăn nói đài các, khó gần. (She speaks in a snobbish way and is hard to approach.)
  • Phong cách đài các của anh ta khiến mọi người khó chịu. (His affected style makes everyone uncomfortable.)
  • Đừng có đài các với bạn bè cũ. (Don't be snobbish with old friends.)

Advanced Usage

• The term often carries a negative connotation, criticizing someone for being haughty, artificially refined, or disdainfully superior.

Variants and Related Words

• Kiêu kỳ (adj): arrogant, haughty.
• Màu mè (adj): showy, flashy (often in speech or style).
• Làm bộ làm tịch (idiomatic phrase): to put on airs, to act affectedly.

Synonyms

• Snobbish: Showing disapproval of or contempt for people considered to be socially inferior.
• Affected: Artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress.
• Pretentious: Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

Related Idioms

• Lên mặt đài các: To put on a snobbish or superior air.
  • Mới giàu có đã lên mặt đài các với hàng xóm. (Having just become wealthy, he already puts on a snobbish air with the neighbors.)

Học thuật

1. Snobbish, affected
   • Ăn nói đài các
     To be snobbish in one's way of speaking