(n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
(n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
(n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.
(a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) But among that bedlam, there has been one traditional, homegrown success story – a debut album by a young British band that has, in the UK at least, outsold Kanye's Yeezus , Miley's Bangerz and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines .
(2) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
(3) He bolted out from behind the desk, through the lobby, down a set of steps and outside, arriving into bedlam.
(4) Amid the melee, Morsi and his colleagues rejected the authority of the court before the bedlam forced the presiding judge to adjourn proceedings until 8 January.
(5) The first object confronting the modern visitor is a towering mahogany and brass collection box with a brutally frank inscription: “Pray remember the poor lunatics.” It dates from the days of the harsh Georgian regime depicted in William Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, when beating in the original Bedlam was regarded as a therapeutic shock for the mentally ill. Curator Victoria Northwood said she felt it was important to tackle the hospital’s history head on.
(6) Cue bedlam in the stands, with those Hammers fans in attendance relishing seeing a side that had continued to show spirit and determination during this contest getting some reward.
(7) It was the prompt for bedlam and a richly deserved victory, which might just be Ireland’s finest of all time.
(8) These were families coming out [to protest] so it was just bedlam at the beginning.
(9) José Mourinho , hands sunk deep into his coat pockets, was unmoved in his technical area as the hush gave way to bedlam all around.
(10) Such bedlam might have caused an overdose of glee among Tottenham fans.
(11) Schieffer was the night police reporter that evening, and d escribed in an article for Poynter how, amid the newsroom bedlam in the wake of Kennedy's shooting, he grabbed a ringing phone to find a woman ask: "Is there anyone there who can give me a ride to Dallas?"
(12) As you go in you see the original large stone gatepost sculptures that graced the entrance of Hogarth’s Bedlam when he depicted people on Sunday afternoon tours to stare at the lunatics.
(13) Billy bookcases and the definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museum Read more Rory Firth, 40, from Maidenhead, said: “It was just bedlam.
(14) The unfortunate Bell however was flung into Bedlam and people came to laugh at him.
(15) With its severe and growing problems with traffic jams, Mumbai certainly sets an international benchmark for what the Economist has labelled “traffic bedlam” .
(16) When the 23-year-old looked again and realised he had registered, up he rose to his feet and what followed was bedlam, as high emotion gripped the Stade de France.
(17) It was an epic contest and, when it was all done, the final explosion of joy and bedlam told us Brazil had made it to the quarter-finals and the World Cup would not have to go on without its hosts.
(18) It was in the bedlam of the away‑team dressing room, as the European Cup was being hoisted between delirious players bouncing for joy amid the piles of soiled kit and scattered bottles of energy drink, that Roman Abramovich delivered a pledge.
(19) These are the subtleties Hodgson can tweak before the “derby” frenzy predicted by Gareth Bale for Lens on Thursday, when the bedlam will hopefully be confined to the pitch and the game better suited to the Premier League.
(20) But Jenkins had a clean look, and he leapt, and flung, and the backboard glowed blood-red and the buzzer blared and the ball dropped clean through the net, and there was instant bedlam as Villanova jumped and danced at the staggering wonder of their victory, and Carolina’s players walked off straight away, because what else could they do?
Chaotic
Definition:
(a.) Resembling chaos; confused.
Example Sentences:
(1) With significant correlation, the experimental data show the statistics of the system not to be casual and Gaussian, but chaotic and persistent, with Hurst exponent <H> approximately 0.77 and fractal dimension <D> 1.23.
(2) Despite mounting criticism during the Duma campaign, both supporters and opponents acknowledge his perceived achievement in restoring Russia's standing in the world following Boris Yeltsin's chaotic 1990s decade.
(3) Some saw it as a morality issue: the bad customers tend to be the lower paid, in and out of jobs, or just plain chaotic.
(4) They impose the illusion of order on a chaotic life; they cement our place within and commitment to a collective.
(5) Chaotic portal vein flow occurred in 35% (14) of pancreatic and 20% (6) of biliary tumours and complete portal vein occlusion in 28% (11) and 10% (3) respectively.
(6) With larger differences in the analog values (and larger feedback error) at each iteration, we found that networks learned to transmit different chaotic attractors.
(7) People didn't see, because it was so chaotic and acrimonious, that the Copenhagen accord turned out to be a strong platform for going forward.
(8) During their meeting, William revealed that the birth of the couple’s first child, Prince George, was so chaotic that he forgot to ask if it was a boy or girl.
(9) A biological process serves as a source and its products are subject t] local dispersive fluid forces constrained by chaotic streamlines.
(10) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
(11) This training is, of necessity, stressful and chaotic in order to simulate combat conditions.
(12) Simulated responses to periodic stimulation include monotonic Wenckebach patterns and alternans at normal [K]o, whereas at low [K]o nonmonotonic Wenckebach periodicities, aperiodic patterns, and enhanced supernormal excitability that results in unstable responses ("chaotic activity") are observed.
(13) The failure of bulbar rhythmogenic mechanisms to maintain an orderly and synchronous recruitment of respiratory drive, which led to untimely and chaotic activations of respiratory muscles, was apparently the underlying cause of various ataxic breathing patterns and a reduced ventilatory efficiency.
(14) Barack Obama stepped into the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit today saying he was convinced the world could act "boldly and decisively" on climate change.
(15) In this paper we describe and demonstrate phase space trajectories generated for sine waves, mixtures of sine waves, and white noise (random chaotic events).
(16) Although security experts could not confirm whether this represents an explicit breach of protocol, they argued that it reflected the chaotic nature of decision-making within police stations as the security services struggled to bring protests under control.
(17) These conditions have brought about the present chaotic state of the city.
(18) The cardiac activity stems from deterministic dynamics of chaotic nature characterized by correlation dimensions D2 ranging from 3.6 to 5.2.
(19) The Office of Rail Regulation will launch an investigation into serious travel disruption caused by overrunning engineering works in London , which led to services to and from two major stations being cancelled and chaotic overcrowding at a local station to which some trains were re-routed.
(20) The other was chaotic, emotionally unsupportive, with high levels of conflict.