| 单词 | kaleidoscopic |
| 释义 | kaleidoscopic (once / 11832 pages) adj Kaleidoscopic things are complicated and undergo constant changes. A controversial movie might result in a kaleidoscopic range of reactions, especially on the Internet. A kaleidoscopic album from your favorite musician combines many different styles and sounds of music, and a kaleidoscopic conversation veers from one topic to another, almost dizzyingly. The adjective kaleidoscopic, which is sometimes used to mean simply "multicolored," comes from kaleidoscope, a toy that reflects images off tiny mirrors to create dazzling patterns — literally, it means "observer of beautiful forms," from the Greek kalos, "beautiful," and eidos, "shape." WORD FAMILYkaleidoscopic: kaleidoscopically+/kaleidoscope: kaleidoscopes, kaleidoscopic, kaleidoscopical USAGE EXAMPLESWhich works because the Rio Games were a whirl, a kaleidoscopic fortnight of sport that left everyone dizzy. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) One would serve rotisserie chicken, and the other would present more adventurous pieces of that country’s kaleidoscopic cuisine, as Erik Ramirez does at Llama Inn. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) It reveals, amid Muldoon’s kaleidoscopic variations, the axiom underlying all his poetry: that no categories are truly stable, that everything inhabits a fuzzy in-betweenness. Slate(Dec 08, 2016) adj continually shifting or rapidly changing Syn kaleidoscopical changeable, changeful such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change |
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