喜樂美語
  1. 1混亂的；亂成一團的

    If a situation is chaotic, everything is happening at once and nobody seems to be in charge. Bags on the floor, people talking over each other, the plan falling apart — that feeling. We use it for places (a chaotic kitchen), times (a chaotic morning), and sometimes for a stretch of someone’s life, though calling a person chaotic can sound a little sharp, as if they themselves were the mess. It is an ordinary, slightly colourful adjective: fine in speech, fine in writing. The quiet noun behind it is chaos. Stress the middle: kay-OT-ik, not CHOW-tic. Though actually, people also say “the room was chaos,” using the noun as if it were a description; teachers may prefer chaotic for the adjective, but both are alive in real talk.

From the word’s history

From Late Latin chaoticus, from chaos + -ticus; analysable as chaos + -otic.

源自拉丁文 chaoticus，由 chaos「混沌」加形容詞字尾組成。

Wiktionary

組成From Late Latin chaoticus, from Latin chaos + -ticus; you can also cut it as chaos + -otic. Scholars note it is a doublet of gassy: the scientific word gas was coined from that same old chaos.

同家族的字

  • chaoschaotic is the adjective from chaos, the noun for a wild mess

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

chaoticadj/keɪˈɒtɪk/

  • 1

    Filled with chaos.

    • Treating of the Expanſum, or Inferiour Heav'n, he ſays that according to the Moſaick Phyſiology, the Heav'ns, generated of the Abyſſine, or Chaotick Waters, are divided only into two Orbs, call'd by the names of the Superiour and Inferiour Heav'ns […]
    • Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver said Tuesday that the federal assault charges filed against her a day earlier related to a chaotic melee outside an Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility are “absurd.”
  • 2

    Extremely disorganized or in disarray.

    • In theſe early and unrefined Ages, the jarring Parts of a certain chaotick Conſtitution ſupported their ſeveral Pretenſions by the Sword. Experience and Policy have ſince taught other Methods.
    • Our intervals of repose were now very short; for at 12ʰ 50ᵐ a.m., March 16th, another rush drove irresistibly on the larboard quarter and stern, and forcing the ship ahead raised her up on the ice. A chaotic ruin followed; our poor and cherished court yard, its wall and arched doors, gallery, and well-trodden paths, were rent, and in some parts ploughed up like dust.
  • 3

    mathematicssciencesHighly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.

    • The manipulation of the environment through design involves many branches of mathematics: the projective geometry of light transmission, the chaotic and probabilistic maths of weather patterns, and the statistical algorithms required to make analysis legible and obtain discrete building components from continuous distributions.
  • 4

    Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles.

    • While a player in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is required to properly perform one of nine moral categories (e.g., "lawful good" or "chaotic neutral"), the Everway player is expected to perform the literary equivalent of moral themes. It is easy to imagine a Macbeth Everway character with the fault of ambition or King Solomon with the virtue of wisdom. It is, however, an additional step removed—and therefore seemintly more contrived—to imagine Macbeth as "chaotic neutral," "neutral evil," or "lawful neutral."
    • The Chaotic Neutral wills the destruction of instances of universal order, but is not motivated by sadism in doing so. The archetypal Chaotic Neutral from recent great fantasy literature remains Karsa Orlong. […] One might harness some of the reasons against the idea of Chaotic Good against Chaotic Neutral. Could someone truly willing chaos do anything but also will the suffering brought about?

chaoticnoun/keɪˈɒtɪk/

  • 1

    A character having a chaotic alignment.

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