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Adjective [English]

IPA: /keɪˈɒtɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /keɪˈɑtɪk/ [General-American], [-ɾɪk] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chaotic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more chaotic [comparative], most chaotic [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒtɪk Etymology: From Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), from Latin chaos (“chaos”) + -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as chaos + -otic. Doublet of gassy. Etymology templates: {{der|en|LL.|chaoticus||of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe}} Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), {{der|en|la|chaos||chaos}} Latin chaos (“chaos”), {{m|la|-ticus|pos=suffix forming adjectives from nouns}} -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns), {{suffix|en|chaos|otic}} chaos + -otic, {{doublet|en|gassy}} Doublet of gassy Head templates: {{en-adj}} chaotic (comparative more chaotic, superlative most chaotic)
  1. Filled with chaos. Translations (filled with chaos): فَوْضَوِيّ (fawḍawiyy) (Arabic), քաոսային (kʻaosayin) (Armenian), хаотичен (haotičen) (Bulgarian), caòtic (Catalan), 混亂 (Chinese Mandarin), 混乱 (hǔnluàn) (Chinese Mandarin), chaotický (Czech), kaotisk (Danish), chaotisch (Dutch), ĥaosa (Esperanto), kaosa (Esperanto), kaoottinen (Finnish), chaotique (French), caótico (Galician), chaotisch (German), כָּאוֹטִי (ka'óti) (Hebrew), anordúil (Irish), caotico (Italian), kaotisk (Norwegian Bokmål), kaotisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), chaotyczny (Polish), caótico (Portuguese), haotic (Romanian), caotic (Romansch), хаоти́ческий (xaotíčeskij) (Russian), хаоти́чный (xaotíčnyj) (Russian), kaotičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), haotičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), caótico (Spanish), kaotisk (Swedish), kaosartad (Swedish), dimayawin (Tagalog), hỗn loạn (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-chaotic-en-adj-l~Smq0ZR Disambiguation of 'filled with chaos': 94 3 2 1
  2. Extremely disorganized or in disarray. Synonyms: shambolic Translations (extremely disorganized or in disarray): քաոսային (kʻaosayin) (Armenian), объркан (obǎrkan) (Bulgarian), безреден (bezreden) (Bulgarian), caòtic (Catalan), 混乱 (hùnluàn) (Chinese Mandarin), chaotický (Czech), kaotisk (Danish), chaotisch (Dutch), wanordelijk (Dutch), onordelijk (Dutch), warrig (Dutch), verward (Dutch), sekasortoinen (Finnish), kaoottinen (Finnish), chaotique (French), caótico (Galician), chaotisch (German), כָּאוֹטִי (ka'óti) (Hebrew), kaotikus (Hungarian), anordúil (Irish), caotico (Italian), kaumingomingo (Maori), tūrangaranga (Maori), kūnakunaku (Maori), kaotisk (Norwegian Bokmål), kaotisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), chaotyczny (Polish), caótico (Portuguese), haotic (Romanian), caotic (Romansch), хаоти́чный (xaotíčnyj) (Russian), беспоря́дочный (besporjádočnyj) (Russian), tapsalteerie (Scots), kaotičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), haotičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), caótico (Spanish), kaotisk (Swedish), kaosartad (Swedish), dimayawin (Tagalog), altüst (Turkish), hỗn độn (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-chaotic-en-adj-PN36kehJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -otic, Chaos theory Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 67 17 3 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 62 19 4 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -otic: 9 62 14 6 8 Disambiguation of Chaos theory: 24 62 9 1 4 Disambiguation of 'extremely disorganized or in disarray': 1 93 5 1
  3. (mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome. Categories (topical): Mathematics Translations ((mathematics) highly sensitive to starting conditions): 混沌 (hùndùn) (Chinese Mandarin), kaotičan (Serbo-Croatian), haotičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-chaotic-en-adj-hGMz0yYD Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of '(mathematics) highly sensitive to starting conditions': 3 16 78 2
  4. (roleplaying games) Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles. Categories (topical): Role-playing games Translations ((role-playing games) aligned against following or upholding laws and principles): kaotičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), haotičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-chaotic-en-adj-en:RPG Disambiguation of '(role-playing games) aligned against following or upholding laws and principles': 3 17 6 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chaotick [obsolete] Derived forms: chaotically, chaotic evil, chaotic good, chaoticness

Noun [English]

IPA: /keɪˈɒtɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /keɪˈɑtɪk/ [General-American], [-ɾɪk] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chaotic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: chaotics [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒtɪk Etymology: From Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), from Latin chaos (“chaos”) + -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as chaos + -otic. Doublet of gassy. Etymology templates: {{der|en|LL.|chaoticus||of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe}} Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), {{der|en|la|chaos||chaos}} Latin chaos (“chaos”), {{m|la|-ticus|pos=suffix forming adjectives from nouns}} -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns), {{suffix|en|chaos|otic}} chaos + -otic, {{doublet|en|gassy}} Doublet of gassy Head templates: {{en-noun}} chaotic (plural chaotics)
  1. (roleplaying games) A character having a chaotic alignment. Categories (topical): Role-playing games
    Sense id: en-chaotic-en-noun-UTPWZ~HX

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          "ref": "1756, [Edmund Burke], “A Vindication of Natural Society; or, A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. […]”, in Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects. […] In Two Volumes, volume II, Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson, […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 60",
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          "text": "Our intervals of repose were now very short; for at 12ʰ 50ᵐ a.m., March 16th, another rush drove irresistibly on the larboard quarter and stern, and forcing the ship ahead raised her up on the ice. A chaotic ruin followed; our poor and cherished court yard, its wall and arched doors, gallery, and well-trodden paths, were rent, and in some parts ploughed up like dust.",
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          "text": "The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN), when it was established in 1943 as the Special Committee on Antarctic Names (SCAN), faced the monumental problem of bringing order into the chaotic geographic nomenclature of a vast, inaccessible, inhospitable continent more expansive than the United States, most of it unseen by man at that time. […] In less than two decades, chaotic confusion with bitter controversy over names in the Antarctic was resolved into an orderly nomenclature largely agreed upon internationally.",
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          "ref": "2019 March 28, Jon Henley, “European press gets popcorn out for another chaotic day of Brexit: The latest twist was likened to a TV saga, and no one knows what the ending will be”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-28",
          "text": "Following \"yet another chaotic day in parliament\", it did at least look like \"the last chance for [Theresa] May's Brexit deal\" was approaching, the paper [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung] said. The prime minister had \"played her last card\" in offering to resign in exchange for the Conservative votes she needed to get it through the House of Commons.",
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          "ref": "2001, Daniel Mackay, “Interface Design: The Machinery Manufacturing the Ghost in the Machine”, in The Fantasy Role-playing Game: A New Performing Art, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, page 45",
          "text": "While a player in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is required to properly perform one of nine moral categories (e.g., \"lawful good\" or \"chaotic neutral\"), the Everway player is expected to perform the literary equivalent of moral themes. It is easy to imagine a Macbeth Everway character with the fault of ambition or King Solomon with the virtue of wisdom. It is, however, an additional step removed—and therefore seemintly more contrived—to imagine Macbeth as \"chaotic neutral,\" \"neutral evil,\" or \"lawful neutral.\"",
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          "text": "The Chaotic Neutral wills the destruction of instances of universal order, but is not motivated by sadism in doing so. The archetypal Chaotic Neutral from recent great fantasy literature remains Karsa Orlong. […] One might harness some of the reasons against the idea of Chaotic Good against Chaotic Neutral. Could someone truly willing chaos do anything but also will the suffering brought about?",
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      "word": "فَوْضَوِيّ"
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      "word": "хаотичен"
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "混亂"
    },
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
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      "word": "chaotický"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "ĥaosa"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "kaosa"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "kaoottinen"
    },
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "chaotique"
    },
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
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    },
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      "code": "he",
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      "roman": "ka'óti",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "כָּאוֹטִי"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "anordúil"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "caotico"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "kaotisk"
    },
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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "kaotisk"
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "chaotyczny"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "caótico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
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      "code": "rm",
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "хаоти́ческий"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "word": "caótico"
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      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "kaosartad"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "dimayawin"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "filled with chaos",
      "word": "hỗn loạn"
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kʻaosayin",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "քաոսային"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "bezreden",
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      "word": "безреден"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
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    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "word": "混乱"
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    },
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      "code": "da",
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      "word": "warrig"
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      "word": "verward"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "sekasortoinen"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "caótico"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "chaotisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
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      "roman": "ka'óti",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "כָּאוֹטִי"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "kaotikus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "anordúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "caotico"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "kaumingomingo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "tūrangaranga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "kūnakunaku"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "kaotisk"
    },
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "kaotisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "chaotyczny"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "caótico"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "haotic"
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      "code": "rm",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "caotic"
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "хаоти́чный"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "besporjádočnyj",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "беспоря́дочный"
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      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "tapsalteerie"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "caótico"
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "kaotisk"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "kaosartad"
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      "code": "tl",
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "dimayawin"
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      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "extremely disorganized or in disarray",
      "word": "hỗn độn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hùndùn",
      "sense": "(mathematics) highly sensitive to starting conditions",
      "word": "混沌"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "(mathematics) highly sensitive to starting conditions",
      "word": "kaotičan"
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