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- pronunciation:
- keI
as
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a state, condition, or place of complete disorder and confusion.
The nation was plunged into chaos by the bloody coup d'état.The office is always in chaos before a major deadline.Your desk is complete chaos--how do you find anything?- synonyms:
- anarchy, confusion
- antonyms:
- order
- similar words:
- Babel, bedlam, brouhaha, commotion, disarray, discord, disorder, disruption, disturbance, ferment, havoc, imbroglio, jumble, mess, muddle, pandemonium, riot, tumble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, uproar, upset
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| definition 2: |
the state of nothingness believed in some religions to have preceded the creation of the universe.
- similar words:
- abysm, abyss, nothingness, void
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| related words: |
anarchy, clutter, fluster, hubbub, maelstrom, melee, tempest, zoo |
adjective + (n.)chaos
absolute,
apparent,
bloody,
coming,
complete,
continuing,
controlled,
economic,
ensuing,
fiscal,
impending,
just,
mass,
moral,
nonlinear,
oblivious,
organizational,
organized,
postwar,
pure,
resulting,
seeming,
sheer,
total,
utter
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verb + (n.)chaos
avert, calm, cause, collapse, confront, create, descend, disintegrate, dissolve, exploit, flee, loot, organize, plunge, result, sow, spell, thrive, unleash
(n.)chaos
+ verb
engulf, ensue, envelop, erupt, genocide, lurk, overwhelm, prevail, reign, scramble, sort, surround, swirl, unfold
noun + (n.)chaos
brink,
calm,
descent,
devastation,
disarray,
fragmentation,
glimpse,
looting,
mathematics,
midst,
noise,
order,
panic,
physics,
quantum,
spread,
stability,
terror,
turmoil,
uncertainty,
upheaval,
verge,
violence,
withdrawal
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