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- [mes]
- /mɛs/
- /mes/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [mes]
- /mɛs/
Definitions of mess word
- noun mess a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess. 1
- noun mess a person or thing that is dirty, untidy, or disordered. 1
- noun mess a state of embarrassing confusion: My affairs are in a mess. 1
- noun mess an unpleasant or difficult situation: She got into a mess driving without a license. 1
- noun mess a dirty or untidy mass, litter, or jumble: a mess of papers. 1
- noun mess a group regularly taking their meals together. 1
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Origin of mess
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English mes < Old French: a course at a meal < Late Latin missus what is sent (i.e., put on the table), noun use of past participle of Latin mittere to send
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Parts of speech for Mess
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
mess popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
mess usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for mess
noun mess
- turmoil — a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult decisions.
- wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- disarray — to put out of array or order; throw into disorder.
- chaos — Chaos is a state of complete disorder and confusion.
verb mess
- monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- take apart — into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.
- potter — Beatrix [bee-uh-triks] /ˈbi ə trɪks/ (Show IPA), 1866–1943, English writer and illustrator of children's books.
- bollix — to make a muddle of; bungle; botch
adjective mess
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- countless — Countless means very many.
- stacker — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- wadder — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
- untidy — not tidy or neat; slovenly; disordered: an untidy room; an untidy person.
Antonyms for mess
noun mess
- calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
- tidiness — neat, orderly, or trim, as in appearance or dress: a tidy room; a tidy person.
- harmony — agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
- order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
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