uproar
Our house is in complete chaos at the moment.
There was chaos in the theatre when the bomb went off.
Computer failure has created chaos in the passport office.
Police are reporting traffic chaos on the motorways.

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Social order & disorder
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anarchistic
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bedlam
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disturb
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havoc
instability
lawlessness
rioting
riotousness
social exclusion
strife
tinderbox
turbulence
turbulent

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chaos | American Dictionary

chaos
noun[ U ]
us/ˈkeɪ·ɑs/
a state of disorder and confusion:
Repairs to the major highway this summer will bring chaos to commuters.

chaotic

adjectiveus/keɪˈɑt̬·ɪk/
The house is a little chaotic right now – we’re in the middle of repainting.

Examples of chaos

chaos
This can be developed by saying that an 'organic' growth, without the structuring element of some kind of framework, is chaos.
These results showed that chaos can only be found when there is sufficient lateral excitation.
Progressives believed that dirt and disorder created chaos and made it difficult for citizens to lift themselves out of poverty.
Instead, it was a series of ad hoc measures implemented in a struggle to prevent chaos and to stop revolutionary turmoil.
However, chaos may be just the elixir needed to facilitate information storage.
Both were afraid not only of alienating allies, but also of vagrancy and chaos within their domains.
Therefore, even in the regime of quantum chaos, the computer can be used reliably for some time, although it is eventually destroyed.
As two resonance zones grow and eventually overlap, invariant curves between them will be destroyed, resulting in the onset of widespread chaos.
Instead of dismissing this 'disease' as pathological chaos, a better approach is to ask what motivated people to rebel.
It is not chaos, but an organization (a pattern, a process that produces this pattern, or a function that the system aims to fulfil).
Different pulses and rhythmic figures are eventually added to reach a more dissonant climax, where crashing gamelan-type sounds depict the chaos of the title.
We will discuss statistical mechanics and chaos, in turn.
The fact that there has been no panic or chaos also reflects a degree of maturity among the populace.
It may be possible to update the white-noise background systematically so that it, rather than the kernels, can represent a chaos developing under non-linear interactions.
Indirectly, it acknowledges that a philosophy of cosmic chaos can be a powerful protective factor, and an effective post-war healer of traumatic stress.
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Collocations withchaos

chaos

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absolute chaos
As we have seen, this did not necessarily mean bringing planning to bear on a state of absolutechaos.
complete chaos
My feeling is if we abolished the government now, already there would be completechaos.
deterministic chaos
I would say the evidence for low-dimensional deterministic chaos in economic and financial data is pretty weak.
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