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chaotically

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cha·os  (ks)
n.
1. A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.
2. A disorderly mass; a jumble: The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
3. often Chaos The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.
4. Mathematics A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.
5. Obsolete An abyss; a chasm.

[Middle English, formless primordial space, from Latin, from Greek khaos.]

cha·otic (-tk) adj.
cha·oti·cal·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.chaotically - in a wild and confused manner; "the drugged man was talking chaotically"
2.chaotically - in a manner suggestive of chaos; "the room was chaotically disorganized"
Translations
chaotically
advchaotisch; the papers had been scattered chaotically about the roomdie Papiere lagen kreuz und quer im ganzen Raum verteilt; such people can be chaotically untidybei solchen Leuten kann das reinste Chaos herrschen
chaotically [keɪˈɒtɪklɪ] advcaoticamente
chaotically [keɪˈɒtɪklɪ] advcaoticamente


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Chaotically, he compared her to the happy young girl--round of cheek and laughing of eye--he had married back in Ohio, fifteen years before.
Instead, it sprang up to a gale which now and then, from a tattered sky, flung pale sweeps of sunlight over a landscape chaotically tossed.
 
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