Synonyms for chaotic
keɪˈɒt ɪkchaot·ic

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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

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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

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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  

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1. chaoticadjective

   Synonyms:
   disordered, confused

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1. List of paraphrases for "chaotic":

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

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How to use chaotic in a sentence?

1. Carrie Lam:

   We should prepare for reconciliation in society by communicating with different people ... We want to put an end to the chaotic situation in Hong Kong.

2. Mississippi ICU nurse Nichole Atherton:

   It looks heroic, but that's not what it is. It's sweaty and hard and chaotic and bloody. And it's hard to live in this every day and then go home and live a normal life.

3. Parvez Alam:

   Due to the firing from the temple roof and by the police, there was a chaotic situation and one bullet hit my son in his head.

4. Scot Peterson:

   So now in my mind I’m thinking, this is probably not even in this area. Someone is sniper firing somewhere in this school towards even the football field, we were doing the best –everydeputy on that scene was doing the best that we could in that chaotic momentatthe beginningwith those shots being fired.

5. Gilles Peress:

   The beginning of the century was extremely chaotic and very, very intense and almost everybody was left disoriented in terms of what to think, what to do, what to feel.