chaotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
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.
Base: chaos
Affixes: -otic
Inflected forms:
form: more chaotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chaotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chaotick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chaotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Filled with chaos.
pos: adj
examples: 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 […]
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver said Tuesday that the federal assault charges filed against her a day earlier related to a chaotic melee outside an Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility are “absurd.”
gloss: Extremely disorganized or in disarray.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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.
Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars.
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.
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.
gloss: Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles.
pos: adj
examples: 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."
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?
gloss: A character having a chaotic alignment.
pos: noun
Derived words: antichaotic
chaotically
chaotic evil
chaotic good
chaotician
chaoticist
chaoticity
chaotic map
chaoticness
chaotic neutral
chaotize
homeochaotic
hyperchaotic
nonchaotic
semichaotic
unchaotic
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