All mess synonyms
mess
M m noun mess
- disorder β lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
- turmoil β a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult decisions.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- confusion β If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- disarray β to put out of array or order; throw into disorder.
- chaos β Chaos is a state of complete disorder and confusion.
- mayhem β Law. the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.
- debris β Debris is pieces from something that has been destroyed or pieces of rubbish or unwanted material that are spread around.
- clutter β Clutter is a lot of things in an untidy state, especially things that are not useful or necessary.
- shambles β a shambling gait.
- jumble β to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You've jumbled up all the cards.
- wreckage β act of wrecking; state of being wrecked.
- plight β Archaic. pledge.
- dilemma β a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- imbroglio β a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
- muddle β to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- dirtiness β soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- salmagundi β a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- hash β hashish.
- combination β A combination of things is a mixture of them.
- fright β sudden and extreme fear; a sudden terror.
- botch β If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
- hodgepodge β a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
- discombobulation β to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- untidiness β not tidy or neat; slovenly; disordered: an untidy room; an untidy person.
- sight β the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- compound β A compound is an enclosed area of land that is used for a particular purpose.
- monstrosity β the state or character of being monstrous.
- mishmash β a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- disorganization β a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
- fix β to repair; mend.
- jam β to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- stew β to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- perplexity β the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
- mix-up β a confused state of things; muddle; tangle.
- pickle β a single grain or kernel, as of barley or corn.
verb mess
- monkey β 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 β 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 β into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.
- potter β Beatrix [bee-uh-triks] /Λbi Ι trΙͺks/ (Show IPA), 1866β1943, English writer and illustrator of children's books.
- bollix β to make a muddle of; bungle; botch
- snafued β a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- screw up β a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- pottering β putter1 .
- goof around β to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
- goof up β to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
- fiddle β a musical instrument of the viol family.
- misconjecture β the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- fall down β to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- twiddle β to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.