chaos, chaotic

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, chaos.

Chaos-born; generated in chaos.

To reduce to chaos or utter confusion, to make chaotic.

The history or description of the chaos.

Divination, or presages, by observing and interpreting confusion or disorder: Chaomancy is a way of fortune telling by viewing and revealing the meanings of clouds, airborne apparitions, aerial visions, or comets.

1. The "formless void" of primordial matter, the "great deep" or "abyss" out of which the cosmos or order of the universe was evolved.
2. The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.

A situation resembling that of utter confusion and disorder, a conglomeration of parts or elements without proper arrangement: Janet's friend has a kitchen which is a chaos of scattered food containers, dirty dishes, and trash. © ALL rights are reserved.
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That which relates to chaos, crude matter, or the primordial (existed from the beginning) unformed matter with God.

1. Pertaining to an unordered, unpredictable, and perplexing situation: Every few weeks, Mrs. Smith asked her students in the fifth grade to clean up the inside of their desks, which were in a chaotic condition with a disarray and turmoil of pencils, notebooks, textbooks, old lunch wrappers, etc.
2. Descriptive of being in a state of complete confusion and lack of organization: Janet had a chaotic mass of books and papers in her living room. © ALL rights are reserved.

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In a chaotic manner.

Chaotic quality.

To reduce to chaos again.