chaotic








adjective

  1. completely confused or disordered: a chaotic mass of books and papers.
adj.

1713, “in a state of primordial chaos,” irregularly formed in English from chaos + -ic, probably on model of eros/erotic, demos/demotic, hypnos/hypnotic, etc. Transferred or figurative meaning “confused, disordered” is from 1747.

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