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CHAOTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking a visible order or organization
Synonyms:
chaotic; helter-skelter
Classified under:
Similar:
disorganised; disorganized (lacking order or methodical arrangement or function)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
Synonyms:
chaotic; disorderly
Classified under:
Similar:
wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)
Derivation:
chaos (a state of extreme confusion and disorder)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
chaos ((physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions)
Derivation:
chaos ((physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions)
Domain category:
physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Context examples:
Just as he caught the swing of them and started, his imagination attuned in flight, always they vanished away in a chaotic scramble of sounds that was meaningless to him, and that dropped his imagination, an inert weight, back to earth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Jo glanced into them, and when she came to her own, leaned her chin on the edge, and stared absently at the chaotic collection, till a bundle of old exercise books caught her eye.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
