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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utter confusion |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, ataxia, bedlam, clutter, disarray, discord, disorder, disorganization, entropy, free-for-all, holy mess, lawlessness, misrule, mix-up, mobocracy, muddle, pandemonium, rat's nest, snarl, topsy-turviness, tumult, turmoil, unruliness |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, normality, order, organization, quiet, system |
| Main Entry: | disarray |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder, confusion, mess |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, ataxia, chaos, clutter, disarrangement, discomposure, disharmony, dishevelment, disorganization, holy mess, indiscipline, jumble, muddle, shambles, snarl, tangle, topsy-turviness, unholy mess, unruliness, untidiness, upset |
| Antonyms: | arrangement, harmony, order, orderliness, organization |
| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaos, clutter |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, ataxia, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, disorderliness, disorganization, huddle, irregularity, jumble, mess, muddle, rat's nest, shambles, snarl, topsyturviness, untidiness |
| Antonyms: | arrangement, conformity, method, order, orderliness, organization, system |
| Main Entry: | muddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confused state |
| Synonyms: | ataxia, awkwardness, botch, chaos, clutter, complexity, complication, confusion, daze, difficulty, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, emergency, encumbrance, fog, foul-up, hash, haze, intricacy, involvement, jumble, mess, mess and a half, mix-up, muss, perplexity, plight, predicament, quandary, rat's nest, screw-up, shambles, snarl, struggle, tangle, trouble |
| Antonyms: | enlightenment, order, organization |
| Main Entry: | pell-mell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, ataxia, chaos, clutter, confusion, disarray, ferment, helter-skelter, huddle, muddle, pandemonium, snarl, tumult, turmoil, upheaval |
| Antonyms: | order, organization |
| Main Entry: | misrule |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, ataxia, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, disorderliness, disorganization, huddle, irregularity, jumble, lawlessness, mess*, muddle, rat's nest, shambles, snarl, topsyturviness, untidiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Absence, or want of order] Disorder. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; disunion; discord., confusion; confusedness; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles [Ovid]., turmoil; ferment (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.
-verbs
-adjectives
disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous (unconformable); acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; confused; deranged; topsy-turvy (inverted) [more]; shapeless; disjointed, out of joint., troublous; riotous (violent).
-adverbs
irregularly; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down.
-phrases
the cart before the horse; chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" [Addison].
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| Antonyms: | order |
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