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chaotic

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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
Adj.1.chaotic - lacking a visible order or organization
disorganised, disorganized - lacking order or methodical arrangement or function; "a disorganized enterprise"; "a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose"; "she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate"
2.chaotic - completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
wild - marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild talk"; "wild parties"
3.chaotic - of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions
natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"

chaotic
Translations
chaotic [keɪˈɒtɪk] ADJcaótico

chaotic [keɪˈɒtɪk] adj [scene, situation] → chaotique; [traffic] → chaotique; [mess, pile] → en désordre

chaotic
adjchaotisch

chaotic [keɪˈɒtɪk] adjcaotico/a, confuso/a
chaotic [keɪˈɒtɪk] adjcaotico/a, confuso/a

chaotic مشوش chaotický kaotisk chaotisch χαοτικός caótico sekasortoinen chaotique kaotičan caotico 大混乱した 혼돈된 chaotisch kaotisk chaotyczny caótico хаотический kaotisk ยุ่งเยิง karmakarışık hỗn loạn 混乱的


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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
The text of the poem is in a chaotic condition, and there are many interpolations, some of Byzantine date.
And yet sometimes one gets a hint of what the last scene may be like in the life of a ship and her crew, which resembles a drama in its struggle against a great force bearing it up, formless, ungraspable, chaotic and mysterious, as fate.
 
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