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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | utterly confused |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, deranged, disordered, disorganized, every which way, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, lawless, purposeless, rampageous, riotous, topsy-turvy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmonized, normal, ordered, organized, quiet, systematic |
| Main Entry: | desultory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random |
| Synonyms: | aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic, without purpose |
| Main Entry: | disorderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | messy, untidy |
| Synonyms: | all over the place, chaotic, cluttered, confused, dislocated, disorganized, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, irregular, jumbled, mixed up, out-of-control, out-of-line, out-of-step, out-of-whack, scattered, scrambled, slovenly, topsy-turvy, tumult, uncombed, undisciplined, unkempt, unmethodical, unrestrained, unsystematic, untrained |
| Antonyms: | arranged, neat, ordered, orderly, organized, systematized, trim |
| Main Entry: | disorganized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unmethodical; messed up |
| Synonyms: | chaotic, confused, disordered, disorderly, haphazard, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, screwed up, shuffled, unsystematic |
| Notes: | disorganized means 'not properly planned and controlled; (of a person) unable to plan one's activities efficiently'; unorganized means 'not organized' |
| Antonyms: | methodical, neat, ordered, organized, planned, regulated, systematic, systematized, tidy |
| Main Entry: | formless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disorganized, vague |
| Synonyms: | amorphous, baggy, blobby, chaotic, crude, inchoate, incoherent, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, nebulous, obscure, orderless, raw, rough, rude, shapeless, unclear, undefined, unformed, unorganized |
| Antonyms: | coherent, distinct, formed, organized, shaped, specific |
| Main Entry: | haywire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken; crazy |
| Synonyms: | amiss, amok, batty, berserk, bonkers*, chaotic, confused, cracked, crazed, defective, disordered, disorganized, erratic, flipped, in a mess, in pieces, insane, mad, messy, nuts, orderless, out of order, out of whack, out to lunch, psycho, schizo, screwball, screwy, touched*, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, wacky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hectic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frantic, turbulent |
| Synonyms: | animated, boisterous, burning, chaotic, confused, disordered, excited, exciting, fervid, fevered, feverish, flurrying, flustering, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hassle, heated, hell broke loose, jungle*, madhouse, nutsy, restless, riotous, rip-roaring, tumultuous, unsettled, wild, woolly, zoolike |
| Antonyms: | calm, easeful, leisurely, unhurried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jumbled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused, mixed-up |
| Synonyms: | blurred, chaotic, cluttered, disarranged, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, in disarray, messy, misunderstood, out of order, scrambled, tangled, unsettled, unsorted, untidy |
| Main Entry: | lawless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, ungoverned |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, bad, barbarous, chaotic, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly, evil, fierce, heterodox, infringing, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, nihilistic, noncompliant, nonconformist, piratical, rebellious, recusant, revolutionary, riotous, savage, seditious, tempestuous, terrorizing, traitorous, turbulent, tyrannous, uncivilized, uncultivated, unorthodox, unpeaceful, unrestrained, unruly, untamed, violent, warlike, wild |
| Antonyms: | governed, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, proper, rightful, valid |
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