chaotic

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• Received-Pronunciation: /keɪˈɒtɪk/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /keɪˈɑtɪk/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: [keɪˈɑɾɪk]
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• Canada, dialectal: /keɪˈɒtɪk/ of the US
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• Canada, dialectal: [keɪˈɒɾɪk] of the US
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• Australian: /kæɪˈɔtɪk/
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• Australian: [kæɪˈɔɾɪk]
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• New-Zealand: /kæɪˈɒtək/
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• New-Zealand: [kæɪˈɔ̟ɾək]
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• rhymes with -ɒtɪk
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• CMU ARPABET: K EY0 AA1 T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فَوْضَوِيّ (fawḍawiyy) — filled with chaos
• Armenian: քաոսային (kʻaosayin) — filled with chaos
• Bulgarian: хаотичен (haotičen) — filled with chaos
• Catalan: caòtic — filled with chaos
• Chinese Mandarin: 混亂 /混乱 (hǔnluàn) — filled with chaos
• Czech: chaotický — filled with chaos
• Danish: kaotisk — filled with chaos
• Dutch: chaotisch — filled with chaos
• Esperanto: ĥaosa — filled with chaos
• Esperanto: kaosa — filled with chaos
• Finnish: kaoottinen — filled with chaos
• French: chaotique — filled with chaos
• Galician: caótico — filled with chaos
• German: chaotisch — filled with chaos
• Hebrew: כָּאוֹטִי (ka'óti) — filled with chaos
• Hindi: अस्त-व्यस्त (ast-vyast) — filled with chaos
• Hindi: अव्यवस्थित (avyavasthit) — filled with chaos
• Hindi: असंगठित (asaṅgṭhit) — filled with chaos
• Icelandic: kaótískur — filled with chaos
• Irish: anordúil — filled with chaos
• Italian: caotico — filled with chaos
• Norwegian Bokmål: kaotisk — filled with chaos
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kaotisk — filled with chaos
• Polish: chaotyczny — filled with chaos
• Portuguese: caótico — filled with chaos
• Romanian: haotic — filled with chaos
• Romansh: caotic — filled with chaos
• Russian: хаоти́ческий (xaotíčeskij) — filled with chaos
• Russian: хаоти́чный (xaotíčnyj) — filled with chaos
• Serbo-Croatian: kaotičan — filled with chaos
• Serbo-Croatian: haotičan — filled with chaos
• Spanish: caótico — filled with chaos
• Swedish: kaotisk — filled with chaos
• Swedish: kaosartad — filled with chaos
• Tagalog: dimayawin — filled with chaos
• Vietnamese: hỗn loạn — filled with chaos
• Armenian: քաոսային (kʻaosayin) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Bulgarian: объркан (obǎrkan) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Bulgarian: безреден (bezreden) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Catalan: caòtic — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Chinese Mandarin: 混乱 (hùnluàn) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Czech: chaotický — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Danish: kaotisk — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Dutch: chaotisch — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Dutch: wanordelijk — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Dutch: onordelijk — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Dutch: warrig — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Dutch: verward — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Finnish: sekasortoinen — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Finnish: kaoottinen — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• French: chaotique — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Galician: caótico — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• German: chaotisch — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Hebrew: כָּאוֹטִי (ka'óti) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Hindi: अस्त-व्यस्त (ast-vyast) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Hindi: अव्यवस्थित (avyavasthit) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Hungarian: kaotikus — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Icelandic: kaótískur — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Irish: anordúil — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Italian: caotico — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Māori: kaumingomingo — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Māori: tūrangaranga — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Māori: kūnakunaku — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Norwegian Bokmål: kaotisk — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kaotisk — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Polish: chaotyczny — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Portuguese: caótico — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Romanian: haotic — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Romansh: caotic — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Russian: хаоти́чный (xaotíčnyj) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Russian: беспоря́дочный (besporjádočnyj) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Scots: tapsalteerie — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Serbo-Croatian: kaotičan — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Serbo-Croatian: haotičan — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Spanish: caótico — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Swedish: kaotisk — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Swedish: kaosartad — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Tagalog: dimayawin — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Thai: โกลาหล (goo-laa-hǒn) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Thai: อลหม่าน — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Thai: วุ่นวาย (wûn-waai) — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Turkish: altüst — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Vietnamese: hỗn độn — extremely disorganized or in disarray
• Chinese Mandarin: 混沌 (hùndùn) — (mathematics) highly sensitive to starting conditions
• Serbo-Croatian: kaotičan — (mathematics) highly sensitive to starting conditions
• Serbo-Croatian: haotičan — (mathematics) highly sensitive to starting conditions
• Catalan: caòtic — (role-playing games) aligned against following or upholding laws and principles
• Catalan: caòtica — (role-playing games) aligned against following or upholding laws and principles
• Serbo-Croatian: kaotičan — (role-playing games) aligned against following or upholding laws and principles
• Serbo-Croatian: haotičan — (role-playing games) aligned against following or upholding laws and principles