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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mixed-up |
| Synonyms: | chaotic, cluttered, cockeyed, confused, disarranged, disheveled, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, downside-up, inside-out, inverted, jumbled, littered, luxated, messy, muddled, overturned, pell-mell, riotous, tangled, tumultous/tumultuous, unhinged, untidy, upended, upside-down, upturned |
| Antonyms: | ordered, organized, straight |
| Main Entry: | chaotic |
| 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: | confused |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mixed up, disordered |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, blurred, chaotic, disarranged, disorderly, disorganized, haywire, in a muddle, in disarray, involved, jumbled, messy, miscalculated, miscellaneous, mistaken, misunderstood, obscured, out of order, snafu, snarled, topsy-turvy, unsettled, untidy |
| Antonyms: | methodical, ordered, organized, separated, systematic |
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | agee, anfractuous, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, crippled, curved, curving, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, incurving, indirect, irregular, kinky, knurly, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, not straight, oblique, out of shape, rambling, roundabout, screwy, serpentine, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, twisted, twisting, uneven, warped, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| 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: | helter-skelter |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | carelessly, confused |
| Synonyms: | about, any which way, anyhow, anywise, around, at random, cluttered, disorderly, haphazard, hastily, headlong, higgledy-piggledy, hit-or-miss, hotfoot, hurriedly, impetuously, in confusion, incautiously, incontinently, irregular, jumbled, muddled, pell-mell, random, randomly, rashly, recklessly, topsy-turvy, tumultous/tumultuous, unmindfully, wildly |
| Antonyms: | carefully, methodical, organized, straight, systematic |
| Main Entry: | muddled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | addled, befuddled, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, convoluted, dazed, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, in disarray, jumbled, messy, mixed up, scrambled, topsy-turvy, untidy |
| Notes: | addled refers to mental confusion; muddled is anything confused or in a mess |
| Main Entry: | slovenly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, disordered |
| Synonyms: | bedraggled, botched, careless, dingy, disheveled, disorderly, dowdy, down-at-the-heel, frowzy, frumpy, grody, grubby, grungy, heedless, icky, loose, messed up, messy, mussy, negligent, pigpen, raunchy, seedy, slack, slapdash, sleazy*, slipshod, sloppy, tacky, topsy-turvy, unfastidious, unkempt, unthorough, untidy |
| Antonyms: | clean, ordered, organized |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turmoil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaos |
| Synonyms: | agitation, ailment, anxiety, anxiousness, bedlam, bustle, commotion, confusion, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dither, ferment, flap, flurry, free-for-all, fuss, hassle*, hectic, hubbub, lather, mix-up, noise, pandemonium, pother, restiveness, restlessness, riot, row, ruckus, stir, strife, to-do, topsy-turvy, trouble, tumult, turbulence, unrest, uproar, violence, whirl |
| Notes: | tumult applies only to people, while turmoil is confusion and agitation for people and things; tumultuous can describe things and people |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, order, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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