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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1. Jeff Goldblum:

   I don’t know anything about what I’m talking about. But let’s utter the word ‘entropy’ and ‘systems’ and how things break down, before the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis, the caterpillar has some convulsions, chaotic convulsions. But it’s not death, necessarily. It’s the onset of transformation.

2. 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.

3. Patrick Forbes:

   We really don't think of the community as refugees. I think of refugees as being scattered and chaotic retreat. This is a resettlement and we are careful to use that word.

4. Bill Bunting:

   The atmosphere has a fairly chaotic component to it, but it does occasionally get into patterns where we see this repeatability. We've seen it in all seasons, unfortunately for this past month, and certainly for the week ahead, the threat for severe weather is going to be present again, in many of the same areas that have already seen enough severe weather just over the past four weeks.

5. Walter Benjamin:

   Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.