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Synonyms for chaotic
keɪˈɒt ɪkchaot·ic

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. chaoticadjective

    Synonyms:
    shambolic

  2. chaoticadjective

    Filled with chaos.

    Synonyms:
    shambolic

  3. chaoticadjective

    Extremely disorganized or in disarray.

    Synonyms:
    shambolic

  4. chaoticadjective

    Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.

    Synonyms:
    shambolic

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. chaotic, helter-skelteradjective

    lacking a visible order or organization

    Synonyms:
    disorderly, helter-skelter, pell-mell

    Antonyms:
    tame, organized

  2. chaotic, disorderlyadjective

    completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing

    Synonyms:
    disorderly, helter-skelter, topsy-turvy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, higgledy-piggledy

    Antonyms:
    organized, tame

  3. chaoticadjective

    of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions

    Synonyms:
    disorderly, helter-skelter

    Antonyms:
    tame, organized

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pandemonium

    pandemonium describes something chaotic and crazy.

    "when the cow escaped from his pen, it was chaotic."

    Submitted by JP03 on January 22, 2015  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. chaoticadjective

    Synonyms:
    disordered, confused

PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "chaotic":

    shambolic, messy, disorderly, chaos, confusing, confused, anarchy, anarchic

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#6866chaos
#6878confused
#10949confusing
#14281messy
#17215anarchy
#18390chaotic
#39319disorderly
#72299jumbled
#82742anarchic
#209430shambolic

How to use chaotic in a sentence?

  1. President Barack Obama:

    Well, we take him at his word when he said that it wouldn't happen during his prime ministership, and so that's why we've got to evaluate what other options are available to make sure that we don't see a chaotic situation in the region.

  2. David Nutt:

    The brain is about organizing information and predicting the external world and we think psilocybin disrupts that and makes it more chaotic, people have hallucinations because instead of seeing the world as the brain expects it to be, you see what the brain is doing.

  3. Gavin Schmidt:

    While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases, the data shows quite clearly that it's the greenhouse gas trends that are responsible for the majority of the trends.

  4. Carl Weick:

    Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

  5. Carl Jung:

    Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.


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