[syn: chaotic, disorderly]
3. of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Chaotic \Cha*ot"ic\ (k[asl]*[o^]t"[i^]k), a.
Resembling chaos; confused.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
chaotic
adj 1: lacking a visible order or organization [syn: chaotic,
helter-skelter]
2: completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn:
chaotic, disorderly]
3: of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial
conditions
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "chaotic":
aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchial, anarchic,
anarchistic, angry, antinomian, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, baggy,
balled up, balled-up, blobby, blurred, blurry, blustering,
blusterous, blustery, bollixed up, bothered, broad, chance, chancy,
characterless, clamorous, confused, discomposed, disconcerted,
disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, embarrassed,
featureless, flustered, fluttered, foggy, formless, fouled up,
frantic, frenzied, furious, fussed, fuzzy, galley-west, general,
haphazard, hazy, hectic, hellish, helter-skelter,
higgledy-piggledy, hit-or-miss, hugger-mugger, ill-defined,
imprecise, in a jumble, in a mess, in a pother, in a pucker,
in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, inaccurate,
inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite,
indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inform,
infuriate, insensate, irregular, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, lax,
loose, lumpen, mad, mindless, misty, mixed up, mixed-up, mucked up,
muddled, nihilistic, noisy, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure,
orderless, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, perplexed, perturbed,
put-out, raging, random, rattled, ravening, raving, riotous,
rip-roaring, ruffled, scattered, screwed up, shadowed forth,
shadowy, shaken, shapeless, shook, shuffled, skimble-skamble,
snafu, stochastic, storming, stormy, sweeping, syndicalistic,
tempestuous, topsy-turvy, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unmethodical,
unordered, unorganized, unplain, unruly, unsettled, unspecified,
unstuck, unsystematic, uproarious, upset, upside-down, vague,
veiled, wild