"messy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈmɛsi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-messy.wav Forms: messier [comparative], messiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛsi Etymology: From mess + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mess|y}} mess + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} messy (comparative messier, superlative messiest)
  1. (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. Tags: person Translations (in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly): бязладны (bjazladny) (Belarusian), неахайны (njeaxajny) (Belarusian), разхвърлян (razhvǎrljan) (Bulgarian), desordenat (Catalan), desendreçat (Catalan), 凌亂 (língluàn) (Chinese Mandarin), wanordelijk (Dutch), chaotisch (Dutch), rommelig (Dutch), warrig (Dutch), sotkuinen (Finnish), sekainen (Finnish), désordonné (French), désorganisé (French), chaotique (French), ჭუჭყიანი (č̣uč̣q̇iani) (Georgian), chaotisch (German), unordentlich (German), ακατάστατος (akatástatos) (Greek), חסר סדר (khasár séder) [masculine] (Hebrew), מבולגן (mevulgán) [masculine] (Hebrew), rendetlen (Hungarian), berantakan (Indonesian), míshlachtmhar (Irish), smeadráilte (Irish), disordinato (Italian), 乱雑な (ranzatsu na) (alt: らんざつな) (Japanese), きたない (kitanai) (english: dirty) (Japanese), ぐちゃぐちゃ (guchagucha) (english: sloppy) (Japanese), រញ៉េរញ៉ៃ (rɔɔñeerɔɔñay) (english: disorderly) (Khmer), chaka-chaka (Krio), incomptus (Latin), неу́реден (neúreden) (Macedonian), ра́сфрлен (rásfrlen) (Macedonian), pōrohe (Maori), hahohaho (Maori), pūaweawe (Maori), rotete (Norwegian), onkrakjt (Plautdietsch), bałaganiarski (Polish), zasyfiony [informal] (Polish), niechlujny (Polish), desorganizado (Portuguese), bagunçado (Portuguese), caótico (Portuguese), desordenado (Portuguese), dezordonat (Romanian), haotic (Romanian), беспоря́дочный (besporjádočnyj) (english: disorderly) (Russian), гря́зный (grjáznyj) (english: dirty) (Russian), неря́шливый (nerjášlivyj) (english: sloppy) (Russian), neupravený (Slovak), rozhádzaný (Slovak), v neporiadku (Slovak), neuprataný (Slovak), desordenado (Spanish), rorig (Swedish), darmadağınık (Turkish), karmakarışık (Turkish), karman çorman [colloquial] (Turkish), pasaklı (Turkish), безла́дний (bezládnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), неоха́йний (neoxájnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), lộn xộn (Vietnamese), hỗn loạn (Vietnamese), anniben (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-messy-en-adj-OhD7AcM- Disambiguation of 'in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly': 91 8 1
  2. (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
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  3. (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
    Sense id: en-messy-en-adj-edy9QtW4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: messily, messiness, wet and messy, wet and messy fetishism

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "neat"
    },
    {
      "word": "orderly"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "messily"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "messiness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "wet and messy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "wet and messy fetishism"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Messie",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Messie",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Messie"
    }
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      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mess + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "messier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "messiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "messy (comparative messier, superlative messiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "messy"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a messy office",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly."
      ],
      "id": "en-messy-en-adj-OhD7AcM-",
      "links": [
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          "disorderly",
          "disorderly"
        ],
        [
          "chaotic",
          "chaotic"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "situation; etc; situation; etc",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a place"
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        "person"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "bjazladny",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "бязладны"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "njeaxajny",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "неахайны"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "razhvǎrljan",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "разхвърлян"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "desordenat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "desendreçat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "língluàn",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "凌亂"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "wanordelijk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "chaotisch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "rommelig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "warrig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "sotkuinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "sekainen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "désordonné"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "désorganisé"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "chaotique"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "č̣uč̣q̇iani",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "ჭუჭყიანი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "chaotisch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "unordentlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "akatástatos",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "ακατάστατος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "khasár séder",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "חסר סדר"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "mevulgán",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "מבולגן"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "rendetlen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "berantakan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "míshlachtmhar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "smeadráilte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "disordinato"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "alt": "らんざつな",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ranzatsu na",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "乱雑な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "dirty",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kitanai",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "きたない"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "sloppy",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "guchagucha",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "ぐちゃぐちゃ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "km",
          "english": "disorderly",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "rɔɔñeerɔɔñay",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "រញ៉េរញ៉ៃ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "kri",
          "lang": "Krio",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "chaka-chaka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "incomptus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "neúreden",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "неу́реден"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "rásfrlen",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "ра́сфрлен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "pōrohe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "hahohaho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "pūaweawe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "rotete"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "onkrakjt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "bałaganiarski"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "zasyfiony"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "niechlujny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "desorganizado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "bagunçado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "caótico"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "desordenado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "dezordonat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "haotic"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "disorderly",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "besporjádočnyj",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "беспоря́дочный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "dirty",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "grjáznyj",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "гря́зный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "sloppy",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nerjášlivyj",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "неря́шливый"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "neupravený"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "rozhádzaný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "v neporiadku"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "neuprataný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "desordenado"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "rorig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "darmadağınık"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "karmakarışık"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "karman çorman"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "pasaklı"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "bezládnyj",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "безла́дний"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "neoxájnyj",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "неоха́йний"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 8 1",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
          "word": "lộn xộn"
        },
        {
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "zasyfiony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "niechlujny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "desorganizado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "bagunçado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "caótico"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "desordenado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "dezordonat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "haotic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "disorderly",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besporjádočnyj",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "беспоря́дочный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "dirty",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grjáznyj",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "гря́зный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "sloppy",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nerjášlivyj",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "неря́шливый"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "neupravený"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "rozhádzaný"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "v neporiadku"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "neuprataný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "desordenado"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "rorig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "darmadağınık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "karmakarışık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "karman çorman"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "pasaklı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezládnyj",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "безла́дний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neoxájnyj",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "неоха́йний"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "lộn xộn"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "hỗn loạn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly",
      "word": "anniben"
    }
  ],
  "word": "messy"
}

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