Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling or of the nature of chaos; confused; without order.
Wiktionary
- adj. Filled with chaos.
- adj. Extremely disorganized or in disarray.
- adj. mathematics Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling chaos; confused.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking a visible order or organization
- adj. completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- adj. of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions
Examples
“The campaign said that it feared what it called a chaotic "Florida situation" and that it is likely to go to the court today.”
“As I commented in an earlier post before I realized this one was up, my favorite money quote from the story by Mark Brunswick, Paul Walsh and Bob Von Sternberg at the Star Tribune: "The campaign said that it feared what it called a chaotic 'Florida situation' and that it is likely to go to the court today.”
“And I have to say also that Iranians know three political situations -- dictatorship, revolution, and what I call chaotic democracy.”
“Some passengers used emergency chutes while others clambered down wings in what they described as a chaotic scene in the smoke-filled ravine.”
“Rather, it is much more what we call a chaotic pattern.”
The Buddhist Concept of Merit: Does Happiness Need To Be Earned?
“Accompanied with an extreme sense of smell (I smell things that aren't there) and what I call chaotic thoughts.”
“Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage … It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl ...”
“MR. LEHRER: Is it fair to say, then, that the miscalculation resulted in chaotic situation that existed immediately after for awhile and got – immediately after the invasion and all that sort of stuff?”
We Used To Leave The Blue Lights On And There Was A Beat | ATTACKERMAN
“How can you dislike a town where everybody jaywalks and the libramientos are known locally as the "other cemetary" and people drive in chaotic but workable distraction and many folks are short and fat and ridiculed by the overcompensating snobbish Highlanders as redneck morons and eating and drinking and dancing are local sports.”
“Unfortunately, a lot of children are being raised in chaotic and/or violent environments.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chaotic’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Romanticism
Words to describe art of the Romantic Era
rebel, rebellious, angst, ambiguous, expression, expressionism, attitude, moody, bruisy, fantasy, dark, brooding and 91 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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My favorites
foible, sidereal, amygdala, woodnote, cogitate, silvern, ollalieberry, ramify, diaphanous, surreality, myopia, subcelestial and 75 more...
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The pretty ones
fiery, lithe, languorous, wax lyrical, resplendent, pithy, gossamer, loquacious, flummox, eschew, ardor, epiphany and 16 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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-ic ending
Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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NTB
chaos, Sagittarius, aether, magic, jester, fool, random, delirium, fire, life, cosmic, riddle and 120 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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monica's list
just words i think are pretty.
luminous, iridescent, crestfallen, wanderlust, autumn, autumnal, spark, candescence, exaltations, merry, empathy, tainted and 96 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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Theophilus North
Words from the novel by Thornton Wilder.
Theophilus, bicycle, Newport, cully, Persis, Hard-hearted Hannah, lazaret, jalopy, Gulliver, tennis, typewrite, breathings and 290 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chaotic.
bilby
And we listen
To what is in us of hidden longing
For an ambiguous street: I have my life over there
My life that caravans made then went on their way
And here I have my life as my bread's worth
And I have my questions about a fate a passing
Present tortures, and I have
A beautiful chaotic tomorrow.
- Mahmoud Darwish, 'We Walk On The Bridge'. Jul 20, 2009