[Lat][Ovid].
     complexity &c. 59a.
     turmoil; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder[obs3],
pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour[obs3], scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb [baseball], fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind &c. 349; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors[Lat]; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a’ quatre[Fr], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work[Fr], pretty piece of business[Fr].
     [legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence;
misdemeanor.
     [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962. 
     V. be disorderly &c. adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.
     put out of order; derange &c. 61; ravel &c. 219; ruffle, rumple. 
     Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear;
irregular, desultory; anomalous &c. (unconformable) 83; acephalous[obs3], deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical[obs3]; unsymmetric[obs3], unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged &c. (see arrange &c. 60)[obs3]; confused; deranged &c. 61; topsy-turvy &c. (inverted) 218; shapeless &c. 241; disjointed, out of joint.
     troublous[obs3]; riotous &c. (violent) 173.
     complex &c. 59a. 
     Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and
starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c. 218. 
     Phr. the cart before the horse; gr/hysteron proteron/gr[Grk][Grk];
chaos is come again; “the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds” [Addison].

     #59a.  Complexity —­ N. complexity; complexness &c. adj.;
complexus[obs3]; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication[obs3]; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c. (convolution) 248; sleave[obs3], tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl[obs3]; webwork[obs3].
     [complexity if a task or action] difficulty &c. 704. 
     V. complexify[obs3], complicate. 
     Adj. gnarled, knarled[obs3]. complex, complexed; intricate,
complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible.

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