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adjective
completely confused or disordered: a chaotic mass of books and papers.
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Chaotic
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Example Sentences
- The official response, by contrast, has been confused and chaotic.
- Her critics on the faculty complained that she was arrogant and had a chaotic management style.
- But apparently, all that chaotic violence is nothing a physicist can't figure out.
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World English Dictionary
| chaos (ˈkeɪɒs) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | complete disorder; utter confusion |
| 2. | (usually capital) the disordered formless matter supposed to have existed before the ordered universe |
| 3. | an obsolete word for abyss |
| [C15: from Latin, from Greek khaos; compare | |
| chaotic | |
| —adj | |
| cha'otically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
chaotic
1713, "in a state of primordial chaos," from chaos. Transf. or fig. meaning "confused, disordered" is from 1747.
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