chaotically
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5.6
- adverb
- /keɪˈɑːtɪkli/
:
caóticamente
- Our house is often chaotically messy and unpeaceful; that doesn't lead to cheerfulness!
- tumbling chaotically
- vary chaotically
- beat chaotically
Hey, but College Football Playoff is going to shake up so chaotically.
- Hey, but College Football Playoff is going to shake up so chaotically.
- So playing suboptimally, playing chaotically as a way to make you hard to pin down about what your strategy is.
- So a very sort of haphazard, quick, chaotically organized thoughts on the new AMD launch and the competition against Pascal.
Examples
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Trillions of particles hurl chaotically in all directions.
Fiction book (1990) -
A human logjam of runners stepped over and around him, swirling chaotically and hindering the paramedics trying to reach him.
Fiction book (1991) -
Change will be inevitable whether it happens chaotically or deliberately.
Blog text (3) -
Yet the candidates offered no strategy for avoiding or adapting to a chaotically changing climate.
Blog text (5) -
Where the first party had been methodical, the new ones cast their belongings about chaotically.
Fiction book (1999) -
Still, Georgia was governed chaotically under the 1777 constitution: war, factional disputes, and institutional instability prevailed.
Academic text (2009) -
Dolly climbed out of the cramped escape vehicle, stretched, and looked around inside an abandoned transit hall that had once been chaotically busy with cargo ships, machinery, miners, entrepreneurs, and assorted bureaucrats.
Fiction book (2000) -
The children played chaotically in the park, running in every direction and laughing loudly.
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After the storm, the papers were scattered chaotically all over the room, making it hard to find anything.
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The meeting progressed chaotically, with everyone talking over each other and no clear agenda.
Synonyms
13
6.4
In a way that is not regular or easy to predict
12
4.7
In a wild and foolish way
9
6.1
In a way that is not planned or organized
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7.9
In a very wild and excited way without control
4
4.2
Happens at different times and not in a steady way
1
7.3
In a confused, messy way with no order
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7.5
In a loud, wild, and very lively way
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9.9
In a messy, mixed-up way with things in no order
In a messy, disorganized way
Being confused and disorganized
In a loud, excited, and disorderly way
In a rough, violent way with strong movement
In a strong, emotional, and wild way
In a chaotic, uncontrolled way
Antonyms
How Chaotic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word chaotically comes from the word chaos, an old Greek word meaning 'great confusion' or a 'big empty space', so imagine a room where nothing is in order and everything is moving wildly. So, to act chaotically is to do something in a wild, confused way.