| 单词 | chaotic |
| 释义 | chaotic (once / 2070 pages) adj Something chaotic is really out of control or disorganized. Chaotic starts with a hard "K" sound (kay-AH-tick), but things that are chaotic are usually not OK, they're crazy disordered, like your crammed locker at the end of the school year. Chaotic is an adjective that comes from the noun "chaos," meaning complete and total confusion or lack of order. Your teacher might find it chaotic inside the bus on the way home from a field trip, with so much talking and singing and stored up energy bouncing around. A classic example of something chaotic is the running of the bulls in Spain, an event that lets people run the streets with a bunch of huge, sharp-horned bulls. It's totally chaotic! WORD FAMILYchaotic: chaotically+/chaos: chaoses, chaotic USAGE EXAMPLESSeconds later, he re-emerged, holding on to a chaotic mess of flapping flippers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Eve Valkyrie, meanwhile, is a full-blown multiplayer space combat sim, throwing the player into chaotic dogfights around the rusting hulks of dead spaceships. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Even when his father eventually brought him back to Paris, Roughol’s adolescence remained chaotic. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing Syn disorderly wild marked by extreme lack of restraint or control 2adj lacking a visible order or organization Syn helter-skelter disorganised, disorganized lacking order or methodical arrangement or function 3adj of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions |
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