| chaos | | |
| n. (state) | 1. bedlam, chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness | a state of extreme confusion and disorder. |
| ~ confusion | disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably.; "the army retreated in confusion" |
| ~ balagan | a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).; "it was utter and complete balagan!" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. chaos | the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos. |
| ~ physical phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy. |
| n. (person) | 3. chaos | (Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe. |
| ~ greek mythology | the mythology of the ancient Greeks. |
| ~ greek deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. chaos | (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ dynamical system | (physics) a phase space together with a transformation of that space. |
| confusion | | |
| n. (state) | 1. confusion | disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably.; "the army retreated in confusion" |
| ~ disorder | a disturbance of the peace or of public order. |
| ~ demoralisation, demoralization | a state of disorder and confusion.; "his inconsistency resulted in the demoralization of his staff" |
| ~ bluster | noisy confusion and turbulence.; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations" |
| ~ bedlam, chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness | a state of extreme confusion and disorder. |
| ~ hugger-mugger | a state of confusion.; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance" |
| ~ schemozzle, shemozzle | (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness | a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior.; "a confusion of impressions" |
| ~ cognitive state, state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes. |
| ~ disorientation | confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction.; "his disorientation was the result of inattention" |
| ~ distraction | mental turmoil.; "he drives me to distraction" |
| ~ daze, haze, fog | confusion characterized by lack of clarity. |
| ~ half-cock | confusion resulting from lack of preparation. |
| ~ jamais vu | the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy. |
| ~ bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement | confusion resulting from failure to understand. |
| ~ perplexity | trouble or confusion resulting from complexity. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. confusion, discombobulation | a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused. |
| ~ embarrassment | the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public. |
| n. (act) | 4. confusion | an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended.; "the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel" |
| ~ compounding, combining, combination | the act of combining things to form a new whole. |
| ~ babel | a confusion of voices and other sounds. |
| n. (act) | 5. confusion, mix-up | a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw" |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| mess | | |
| n. (state) | 1. mess, messiness, muss, mussiness | a state of confusion and disorderliness.; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" |
| ~ disorderliness, disorder | a condition in which things are not in their expected places.; "the files are in complete disorder" |
| n. (state) | 2. fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle | informal terms for a difficult situation.; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" |
| ~ difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.; "grappling with financial difficulties" |
| ~ dog's breakfast, dog's dinner | a poor job; a mess.; "they made a real dog's breakfast of that job" |
| n. (food) | 3. mess | soft semiliquid food.; "a mess of porridge" |
| ~ aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, nutrition, victuals | a source of materials to nourish the body. |
| n. (food) | 4. mess | a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel. |
| ~ meal, repast | the food served and eaten at one time. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. mess, mess hall | a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax. |
| ~ dining-room, dining room | a room used for dining. |
| ~ officer's mess | a mess for the exclusive use of officers. |
| ~ training table | planned meals for athletes in training (usually served in a mess hall). |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| n. (quantity) | 6. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| v. (consumption) | 7. mess | eat in a mess hall. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ eat | eat a meal; take a meal.; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" |
| v. (change) | 8. mess, mess up | make a mess of or create disorder in.; "He messed up his room" |
| ~ disarray, disorder | bring disorder to. |
| muddle | | |
| n. (state) | 1. clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter | a confused multitude of things. |
| ~ disorderliness, disorder | a condition in which things are not in their expected places.; "the files are in complete disorder" |
| ~ rummage | a jumble of things to be given away. |
| v. (contact) | 2. muddle, puddle | make into a puddle.; "puddled mire" |
| ~ rile, roil | make turbid by stirring up the sediments of. |
| v. (cognition) | 3. addle, muddle, puddle | mix up or confuse.; "He muddled the issues" |
| ~ mix up, jumble, confuse | assemble without order or sense.; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence" |
| riot | | |
| n. (act) | 1. public violence, riot | a public act of violence by an unruly mob. |
| ~ violence, force | an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists).; "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one" |
| ~ race riot | a riot caused by hatred for one another of members of different races in the same community. |
| n. (state) | 2. riot, rioting | a state of disorder involving group violence. |
| ~ disorder | a disturbance of the peace or of public order. |
| n. (communication) | 3. belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow | a joke that seems extremely funny. |
| ~ gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh | a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" |
| n. (act) | 4. bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia | a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. |
| ~ revel, revelry | unrestrained merrymaking. |
| v. (social) | 5. riot | take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot.; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968" |
| ~ rampage | act violently, recklessly, or destructively. |
| v. (social) | 6. carouse, riot, roister | engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.; "They were out carousing last night" |
| ~ jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, racket, wassail, whoop it up, revel | celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" |
| turbulence | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. turbulence, turbulency | unstable flow of a liquid or gas. |
| ~ countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip, rip | a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current. |
| ~ physical phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy. |
| n. (state) | 2. turbulence | instability in the atmosphere. |
| ~ bad weather, inclemency, inclementness | weather unsuitable for outdoor activities. |
| ~ clear-air turbulence | strong turbulence in an otherwise cloudless region that subjects aircraft to violent updrafts or downdrafts. |
| n. (state) | 3. sturm und drang, turbulence, upheaval | a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally).; "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" |
| ~ political science, politics, government | the study of government of states and other political units. |
| ~ disorder | a disturbance of the peace or of public order. |
| ~ ferment, fermentation, unrest, agitation, tempestuousness | a state of agitation or turbulent change or development.; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest" |
| ~ roller coaster | anything characterized by abrupt and extreme changes (especially up and down).; "the economy has been on a roller coaster all year" |
| ~ violence | a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.. |
| knotty | | |
| adj. | 1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 2. gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty | used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" |
| ~ crooked | having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned.; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" |
| adj. | 3. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" |
| ~ complex | complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs" |
| adj. | 4. knotty, snarled, snarly | tangled in knots or snarls.; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" |
| ~ tangled | in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" |
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