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; observed in clouds, airborne apparitions, aerial visions, or comets.

1. A gaping void, yawning gulf, chasm, or abyss. In Greek specifically, the nether abyss, infinite darkness.
2. A state resembling that of primitive chaos; utter confusion and disorder.
3. Anything where the parts are undistinguished; a confused mass or mixture, a conglomeration of parts or elements without order or connexion; for example, "Her kitchen was a chaos of scattered food containers, dirty dishes, and trash."

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.

That which identifies chaos or crude matter with the first principle or God.

1. Lacking a visible order or organization.
2. Completely unordered, unpredictable, and confusing.
3. Completely disordered and out of control.
4. Inherently unpredictable; a description of the state of a system according to chaos theory.
5. Completely confused or disordered; such as, "a chaotic mass of books and papers".

In a chaotic manner.

Chaotic quality.

To reduce to chaos again.