Chaos vs Sloppy - What's the difference?
chaos | sloppy |
(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony
Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
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(obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
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(mathematics) Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
Imprecise or loose.
As a noun chaos
is .As an adjective sloppy is
very wet; covered in or composed of slop.chaos
English
Noun
(en-noun)- What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* (classical cosmogony) cosmos * (state of disorder) orderDerived terms
(terms derived from chaos) * chaos theory * chaotic * controlled chaosSee also
* entropy * discord * capricious ----sloppy
English
Adjective
(er)- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!