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chaotically

adverbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — chaos sits at #2,564neutral

Chaotically means in a completely disordered way. The room emptied chaotically.

Something can be run chaotically and still work, which infuriates anybody tidy. Things done chaotically usually cost twice as much and are remembered fondly.

Definitions of chaotically

  1. 1adverbchaoticallyIn a completely disordered way.C1

    “The evacuation went chaotically and everybody got out.”

chaotically is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    chaoticus — of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe

  2. English

    chaotic

  3. English, today

    chaotically

From chaotic + -ally. chaotic comes from Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), from Latin chaos (“chaos”) + -ticus; analysable as chaos + -otic. a doublet of gassy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

chaotically in the wild

  • The orbital elements of the asteroids vary chaotically as a result and evolve onto planet-crossing orbits within a few million years.

    Kirkwood gap

  • In spiral galaxies, including our Milky Way, H II regions are concentrated in the spiral arms, while in irregular galaxies they are distributed chaotically.

    H II region

  • Thus, in Wolfram's classification of cellular automata, it is a Class III automaton, in which nearly all patterns evolve chaotically.

    Seeds (cellular automaton)

  • Then, in 1872, Father Gaetano Barbati had the chaotically buried skeletal remains disinterred and catalogued.

    Fontanelle cemetery

  • For example, it means that if a set of conditions on a bounded, continuous dynamical system rules out periodic orbits, that system cannot behave chaotically.

    Pugh's closing lemma

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the chaoticus family

chaotic

chaotically — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

  • chaos