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messy

[ mes-ee ]

adjective

, mess·i·er, mess·i·est.
  1. characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:

    a messy room.

  2. causing a mess:

    a messy recipe; messy work.

  3. embarrassing, difficult, or unpleasant:

    a messy political situation.

  4. characterized by moral or psychological confusion.


messy

/ ˈmɛsɪ /

adjective

  1. dirty, confused, or untidy


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Derived Forms

  • ˈmessiness, noun
  • ˈmessily, adverb

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Other Words From

  • messi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of messy1

First recorded in 1835–45; mess + -y 1

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Example Sentences

If you think divorce between two people is messy and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.

But there is a messy middle territory between demonization and idealization.

THE NEW YORK TIMES/JILL ABRAMSON DISASTER: It was messy enough when, on May 14, New York Times Co.

In another, they sit smiling inside their Los Angeles apartment at a messy kitchen table.

Their inevitable divorce was messy, bitter, and packed with bizarre occurrences.

I can't bear ugly, messy places; above all, messy, untidy places make me perfectly cross and miserable.'

There used to be a very messy, rocky desert here, and we used to have to scrabble and scratch our way to the monument.

There was something so messy about dish-washing, ordinary dish-washing; milk-pans were different.

Fishing seemed a messy business—an uncouth trade among uncouth men.

I did write out my translations on an extra paper first, for I didnt want to make any erasures and have a messy paper.

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