lacking a visible order or organization

of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions

Resembling chaos; confused.

In wild confusion; disordered; as, chaotic ideas.

Like chaos: confused or disordered.

Of or like chaos; unformed; disordered.

Confused; thrown together into a vast heap without any order or arrangement.

Heretofore, its students and ministers had been content to sift its principles from a chaotic mass of statutes and decisions, and collect and arrange the perplexing details of its form of procedure. – Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

How chaotic the world is! – Barriers Burned Away by E. P. Roe

See my chaotic note, which will appear, I fancy, in November in Henley's sheet. – The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang

Below the quiet order of our British constitution are heard, from time to time, the rumble of chaotic and disintegrating forces. – Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

Dimly, through fainting eyes, I saw a dazzling brilliancy fill the sky; heard with dying ears a chaotic blasting roar. – The Metal Monster by A. Merritt

If the chaotic disorder of the Austrian Government had been better understood in Europe, less importance would have been attached to this sudden change in its tone. – History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 by C. A. Fyffe

The chronicles, though chaotic in arrangement, comprise basic source material. – Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest by J. Frank Dobie

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On this chaotic world! – Barriers Burned Away by E. P. Roe

A great shout went up from the chaotic mass of brown men as the white- clad figures came down the ladder and Ha'o shouted the good news to them. – White Fire by John Oxenham

His mind was in such a state of chaotic confusion, that it required some time to determine what he ought to do next, or whither he should go. –  by

The plank led to the door of a building that was a marvel even in the chaotic frontier architecture of the street. – Frontier Stories by Bret Harte

His ideas were chaotic and he seemed to be spiritually adrift. – The Orchard of Tears by Sax Rohmer

Right at this time, he said, my mind is rather in a chaotic condition. –  by

A splendidly embroidered robe of Europeanism is worn over a chaotic undeveloped mass of semi- barbarism. – A Short History of Russia by Mary Platt Parmele

Old Maisie's belief in " Uncle Nicholas's" death by drowning, fifty years ago, clung to her mind, as a portion of a chaotic past no visible surrounding challenged. – When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

But there was plenty yet to see; for, as the mist reached the shore, it seemed to grow more dense, and began to roll in great clouds up some vast slope, and then higher and higher, revealing a long, narrow beach; then a line of chaotic rocks, which had fallen from above; then higher and higher, cliff upon cliff, weather- beaten to a hundred hues; and up above these again, towering mountains; lastly, as if to give the culminating beauty to the scene, the clouds rolled away from one tremendous peak, attended by a score of minor heights, crowned with dazzling ice and snow, vivid and beautiful in the glorious summer sun. – Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

We travelled about ten miles by poling; this is the best day's work that we have made since we entered this chaotic region. – Ismailia by Samuel W. Baker

However chaotic the material in which he proposed to work, however inadequate his powers, it was yet a truth that, could he execute anything at all, it would be something of the kind thus vaguely contemplated. – The Emancipated by George Gissing

To further describe the chaotic state of England occasioned by the terrible and bloody war would serve no purpose. – The Invasion by William Le Queux