What does "chaotic" mean?
A character having a chaotic alignment.
Chaotic
/keɪˈɒtɪk/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A character having a chaotic alignment.
- Grammar: chaotic is listed as adj, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: disorderly, academic disorganization indicators, aleatoric, aleatory.
- Useful contrasts: accessible text, agricultural ecosystem balance, analytical chemistry workflow.
- Usage evidence: German punctuation is pedantic, English punctuation is chaotic, and for Esperanto Dr. Zamenhof suggested we look towards our mother tongue as a guideline. Go figure!
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A character having a chaotic alignment.
Adjective
- 1 Filled with chaos.
"Treating of the Expanſum, or Inferiour Heav'n, he ſays that according to the Moſaick Phyſiology, the Heav'ns, generated of the Abyſſine, or Chaotick Waters, are divided only into two Orbs, call'd by the names of the Superiour and Inferiour Heav'ns […]"
- 2 Extremely disorganized or in disarray.
"In theſe early and unrefined Ages, the jarring Parts of a certain chaotick Conſtitution ſupported their ſeveral Pretenſions by the Sword. Experience and Policy have ſince taught other Methods."
- 3 Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
"The manipulation of the environment through design involves many branches of mathematics: the projective geometry of light transmission, the chaotic and probabilistic maths of weather patterns, and the statistical algorithms required to make analysis legible and obtain discrete building components from continuous distributions."
- 4 Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles.
"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.""
Adjective
- 1 lacking a visible order or organization wordnet
- 2 completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing wordnet
- 3 of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions wordnet
Synonyms
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Example
"German punctuation is pedantic, English punctuation is chaotic, and for Esperanto Dr. Zamenhof suggested we look towards our mother tongue as a guideline. Go figure!"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "chaotic"?
Common synonyms include: disorderly, academic disorganization indicators, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous.
How do you use "chaotic" in a sentence?
German punctuation is pedantic, English punctuation is chaotic, and for Esperanto Dr. Zamenhof suggested we look towards our mother tongue as a guideline. Go figure!
How do you pronounce "chaotic"?
Pronounced /keɪˈɒtɪk/.
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. By surface analysis, cha- + -otic. Doublet of gassy.