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English
Etymology
From mess + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
messy (comparative messier, superlative messiest)
- (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
a messy office
Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.
- (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
He is the messiest person I've ever met.
- (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
a messy divorce
Synonyms
(in a disorderly state): untidy, chaotic, disorderly, cluttered
Antonyms
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Translations
in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: бязладны (bjazladny), неахайны (njeaxajny)
- Bulgarian: разхвърлян (bg) (razhvǎrljan)
- Catalan: desordenat, desendreçat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 凌亂 (zh) (língluàn)
- Dutch: wanordelijk (nl), chaotisch (nl), rommelig (nl), warrig (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sotkuinen (fi), sekainen (fi)
- French: désordonné (fr), désorganisé (fr), chaotique (fr)
- Georgian: ჭუჭყიანი (č̣uč̣q̇iani)
- German: chaotisch (de), unordentlich (de)
- Greek: ακατάστατος (el) (akatástatos)
- Hebrew: חסר סדר m (khasár séder), מבולגן m (mevulgán)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: rendetlen (hu)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: berantakan (id)
- Irish: míshlachtmhar, smeadráilte
- Italian: disordinato (it)
- Japanese: 乱雑な (ja) (らんざつな, ranzatsu na), きたない (ja) (kitanai) (dirty), ぐちゃぐちゃ (ja) (guchagucha) (sloppy)
- Khmer: រញ៉េរញ៉ៃ (rɔɔñeerɔɔñay) (disorderly)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Krio: chaka-chaka
- Latin: incomptus
- Macedonian: неу́реден (neúreden), ра́сфрлен (rásfrlen)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: pōrohe, hahohaho, pūaweawe
- Plautdietsch: onkrakjt
- Polish: bałaganiarski (pl), zasyfiony (informal), niechlujny (pl)
- Portuguese: desorganizado (pt), bagunçado (pt), caótico (pt), desordenado (pt)
- Romanian: dezordonat (ro), haotic (ro)
- Russian: беспоря́дочный (ru) (besporjádočnyj) (disorderly), гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj) (dirty), неря́шливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj) (sloppy)
- Slovak: neupravený, rozhádzaný, v neporiadku, neuprataný
- Spanish: desordenado (es)
- Swedish: rorig
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: darmadağınık (tr), karmakarışık (tr), (colloquial) karman çorman, pasaklı (tr)
- Ukrainian: безла́дний (uk) m (bezládnyj), неоха́йний m (neoxájnyj)
- Vietnamese: lộn xộn (vi), hỗn loạn (vi)
- Welsh: anniben (cy)
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Noun
messy
- Alternative form of messe