English words for 'Chaotically confused, like Babel.'
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- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- Filled with chaos.
- of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions
- lacking a visible order or organization
- (roleplaying games) Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles.
- (mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
- Extremely disorganized or in disarray.
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- undisciplined and unruly
- in utter disorder
- Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
- (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
- (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.
- A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
- (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
- a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
- a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
- a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
- A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- A shade of red-violet.
- (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
- An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets
- (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
- a confused multitude of things
- (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
- (mathematics) A Sperner family.
- (countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
- unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
- chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- (of a person or animal) disoriented
- embarrassed
- making no sense; illogical
- (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
- mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
- perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- lacking orderly continuity
- (figurative) A tangled mess.
- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
- (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- (vulgar slang) A dense mass of pubic hair.
- (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- (golf slang) Dense rough.
- a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
- a place where hoboes camp
- an impenetrable equatorial forest
- something jumbled or confused
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- something jumbled or confused
- a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A tangled twisted mass.
- disarrange or rumple; dishevel
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
- (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (transitive) To catch and hold.
- (originally Scotland and Northern England, transitive) To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch.
- (intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
- (intransitive, frequently with on) To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length.
- (intransitive) To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
- (intransitive, of an insect) To buzz or bum.
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- speak haltingly
- A confused mess.
- (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
- A hash run.
- (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- (Scotland) A stupid fellow.
- chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
- purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
- (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- disentangle
- tangle or complicate
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
- An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
- a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
- Confusion, turmoil.
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- form an impenetrable cover over
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
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- (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.
- A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
- (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
- a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
- a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
- a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
- A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- A shade of red-violet.
- (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
- An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets
- (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
- a confused multitude of things
- (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
- (mathematics) A Sperner family.
- (countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
- unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
- (figurative) A tangled mess.
- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
- (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- (vulgar slang) A dense mass of pubic hair.
- (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- (golf slang) Dense rough.
- a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
- a place where hoboes camp
- an impenetrable equatorial forest
- something jumbled or confused
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- something jumbled or confused
- a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A tangled twisted mass.
- disarrange or rumple; dishevel
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
- (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (transitive) To catch and hold.
- (originally Scotland and Northern England, transitive) To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch.
- (intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
- (intransitive, frequently with on) To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length.
- (intransitive) To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
- (intransitive, of an insect) To buzz or bum.
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- speak haltingly
- A confused mess.
- (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
- A hash run.
- (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- (Scotland) A stupid fellow.
- chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
- purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
- (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- disentangle
- tangle or complicate
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
- An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
- a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
- Confusion, turmoil.
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- envelop completely
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- form an impenetrable cover over
- (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- (intransitive) To be suffocated.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
- (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- (intransitive, of a fire) to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- (boxing) To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- (transitive) To daub or smear.
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- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- Filled with chaos.
- of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions
- lacking a visible order or organization
- (roleplaying games) Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles.
- (mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
- Extremely disorganized or in disarray.
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- undisciplined and unruly
- in utter disorder
- Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
- (law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
- chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- (of a person or animal) disoriented
- embarrassed
- making no sense; illogical
- (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
- mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
- perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- lacking orderly continuity