Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Noisy and chaotic: Describes a loud, boisterous, and disorderly situation filled with a clamor of sounds, often from many people or sources.
   • Riotous; tumultuous: Characterizes an atmosphere that is not just loud but also wild, unrestrained, and lacking order.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Con đường trước cổng trường thật ồn ã. (The street in front of the school gate is really noisy and chaotic.)
  • Không khí trong chợ lúc nào cũng ồn ã. (The atmosphere in the market is always riotous.)
  • Đám đông trở nên ồn ã khi ca sĩ xuất hiện. (The crowd became tumultuous when the singer appeared.)

Advanced Usage

• "ồn ã nhất": the noisiest/most riotous.
  • Đây là khu phố ồn ã nhất thành phố. (This is the noisiest neighborhood in the city.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ồn (adj): noisy, loud. This is the root word, while ồn ã intensifies it with a sense of chaos.

  • Tiếng nhạc quá ồn. (The music is too loud.)

• Ồn ào (adj): noisy, clamorous. Very similar to ồn ã, but may sometimes imply slightly less chaos.

  • Buổi tranh luận diễn ra rất ồn ào. (The debate took place very noisily.)

Synonyms

• Noisy: making a lot of sound.
• Riotous: wildly noisy and chaotic.
• Tumultuous: loud, excited, and disorderly.
• Boisterous: noisy, energetic, and cheerful in a wild way.

Related Idioms

• Ồn như chợ vỡ: as noisy as a market that has broken apart; a proverbial idiom describing extreme, chaotic noise.
  • Lớp học ồn như chợ vỡ khi giáo viên vắng mặt. (The classroom was as noisy as a collapsed market when the teacher was absent.)

1. Noisy; riotous