Definition

1. Adjective:
   • In a chaotic, disorderly, or mixed-up state: Describes a situation or things that are jumbled, messy, or in disarray, often due to haste or confusion.
   • In a panicked, disorderly rush: Describes people or animals moving or acting in a frantic, uncontrolled, and chaotic manner.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đồ đạc đổ vỡ nháo nhào. (Objects lay broken in a chaotic mess.)
  • Mọi người bỏ chạy nháo nhào khi nghe tiếng nổ. (Everyone ran away in a panicked, disorderly rush when they heard the explosion.)
  • Cơm cháo nháo nhào. (Rice and gruel are all mixed up together.)

Advanced Usage

• "nháo nhào lên": to become chaotic/panicked, to erupt into disorder.
  • Cả phòng họp nháo nhào lên vì tin đó. (The whole meeting room erupted into chaos because of that news.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nháo nhác (adj): A closely related word also meaning panicked, flustered, or in a state of alarm, often describing people's expressions or behavior. It emphasizes the emotional state of fear or panic more than physical disorder.
  • Mặt nó nháo nhác tìm chìa khóa. (His/her face was panicked as he/she looked for the keys.)

Synonyms

• Hỗn độn: chaotic, disorderly.
• Lộn xộn: messy, untidy, in disarray.
• Bừa bộn: cluttered, in a mess.

Related Idioms

• Chạy nháo nhào: to run in a panicked, disorderly manner.
  • Bọn trẻ chạy nháo nhào ra sân. (The children ran out into the yard in a disorderly rush.)

1. Mix up
   • Cơm cháo nháo nhào
     Rice and gruel mixed up together