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Another word for mess

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Noun

  1. A group of things gathered haphazardly

  2. A lack of order or regular arrangement

  3. A ruinous state of disorder

  4. An unsightly object

  5. An individual quantity of food

Verb

  1. To handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively

  2. To put (the hair or clothes) into a state of disarray.

Idioms:

    mess around

  1. To waste time by engaging in aimless activity

    2. mess around

  2. To be nervously or uselessly active

    3. mess around

  3. To be sexually unfaithful to another

    4. mess up

  4. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess

    5. mess up

  5. To put into total disorder

    6. mess up

  6. To put out of proper order

    7. mess up

  7. To be rough or brutal with

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for mess

Noun

  1. A mixture

  2. A confusion

  3. Military term for meals

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Rule number two: if you make a mess, clean it up.

  • I'm a mess wondering what's wrong with me.

  • I can deal with the mess in my head.

  • I sort of got roped into this mess by default.

  • The help will clean that mess when she sobers up in the morning.

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