Chaos and Pattern

Opposite meaning words

Chaos noun - A state in which everything is out of order.

Usage example: the boy's room is in such chaos that it looks as though a tornado had struck

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Pattern is an antonym for chaos.

Nearby Word: chaotic

Pattern noun - A unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric).

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Chaos is an antonym for pattern.

usual	usual chaos	usual pattern
set	set chaos	set pattern
current	current chaos	current pattern
original	original chaos	original pattern
Other adjectives: entire, general, classic, random, primal, genetic.

In the 5 books focusing on Merlin in The Chronicles of Amber, both the Pattern (the symbol of order) and its chaos counterpart the Logrus turn out to be sentient.

Source: Both Order And Chaos Are Dangerous
Some boss songs really got out of hand with this trope, such as "Chaos", which abruptly stops dozens of times with hardly any pattern at all.

Source: Stop and Go
Grandpa is an even better candidate for the God Was My Copilot trope, since he's the one who created the Pattern, more or less bringing the universe into existence out of the primal Chaos.

Source: God Was My Copilot

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