Definition of Chaotic

1. Adjective. Lacking a visible order or organization.

Exact synonyms: Helter-skelter
Similar to: Disorganised, Disorganized

2. Adjective. Completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing.
Exact synonyms: Disorderly
Similar to: Wild
Derivative terms: Chaos, Disorderliness

3. Adjective. Of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
Partainyms: Chaos
Derivative terms: Chaos
Category relationships: Physics

Definition of Chaotic

1. a. Resembling chaos; confused.

Definition of Chaotic

1. Adjective. Filled with chaos. ¹

2. Adjective. Extremely disorganized or in disarray. ¹

3. Adjective. (mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chaotic

1. chaos [adj] - See also: chaos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaotic

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chaogenous
chaoite
chaolite
chaological
chaologist
chaologists
chaology
chaomancy
chaophilia
chaos-theory
chaos theory
chaoses
chaoslike
chaotic (current term)
chaotic attractor
chaotic heart
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chaotician
chaoticist
chaoticists
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chaotick
chaoticness
chaotics
chaotization
chaotropic
chaotropism

Literary usage of Chaotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Profiting from Chaos: : Using Chaos Theory for Market Timing, Stock by Tonis Vaga (1994)
"The main difference between chaotic and coherent markets lies in the ... However, in a chaotic market, the probability of a state transition depends ..."

2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The situation in the United States as to accidents long chaotic; the need of reform. Rapid spread of compensation for accident. ..."

3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"Nevertheless, we nre perhaps not in reality so very much worse off. Extreme method in criticism is something of a chaotic critical book of ..."

4. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"The whirl of conflicting impulses becomes a continuous current because it is so chaotic and determines a mood of sentiment if not a particular vein of ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1905)
"The whole question is in a chaotic state, and it is at present better to keep to the old divisions. Even if it should turn out to be true, ..."

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