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adjective, mess·i·er, mess·i·est.

characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: a messy room.

causing a mess: a messy recipe; messy work.

embarrassing, difficult, or unpleasant: a messy political situation.

characterized by moral or psychological confusion.

Origin:
1835–45; mess + -y¹

Related forms

mess·i·ness, noun

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Crew catalogue are far removed from the messy world of junk bonds and leveraged buyouts.

Such fibers are both light-colored and messy, and so towhead can refer to someone with light or messy hair.

Industry and commerce were shifted into estates and messy pig and duck farms closed down.

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Crew catalogue are far removed from the messy world of junk bonds and leveraged buyouts.

Such fibers are both light-colored and messy, and so towhead can refer to someone with light or messy hair.

Industry and commerce were shifted into estates and messy pig and duck farms closed down.

Mixing from the repeated use of the fire pit may or may not explain the messy order.

In other words, the truism that more information is always better proved untrue when life got a little messy.

And often, the only way to do it is to get messy ourselves.

Blossoms are followed by attractive cream-and-red seed capsules that drop and can be messy on paving.

Home brewing tends to be a deliciously messy and involved process.

Studies show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with.

His predecessor was also fired, in a messy split that led to a lawsuit.

Not surprisingly, given the chaotic auction process, the final outcome is messy.

In fact, they are proving every bit as complex and messy as our own.

Space is a messy place and someone has to clean the mess that others make.

It also allows for a messy bed to be kept out of sight.

As you sit down in your tiny, messy cube, fluorescent lights buzz overhead.

More than a business threat, the site has raised messy copyright issues and drawn the ire of established publishers.

The fact is, putting on the white coat necessitates doing a whole lot of icky, messy work.

Even then the next few weeks and months are almost certain to be frustrating, dangerous and messy.

Clownfish also dwell among the tentacles, where those messy eaters provide their anemone hosts with plentiful table scraps.

Better to be doing something unique and having a messy life than to sit in a chair doing bloody accounts for a brokerage firm.

Many times my kitchen becomes so messy and due to rotten potatoes.

They're called chimeras, and things get pretty messy.

Writing laws in this area will undoubtedly be messy and hard and controversial.

Much less messy for all, a fresh start, and it doesn't seem as if it is personal.

Nobody can deny that the present arrangement is messy and hypocritical.

All that messy diversity, unfortunately, is not well suited to the monocrops and mega-yields of modern commercial farmers.

We are becoming too many, our lifestyle is messy and increasingly toxic against this planet.

Let's start with the easy one, and then move on to the messy one.

The messy layers of human experience get pulled together, and sometimes ordered, by words.

If a messy desk distracts you from moving forward with your writing, clean it.

Following the second world war many countries reduced debt quickly without messy defaults or painful austerity.

They are a lot of fun and let you get messy and make whatever you want.

Danger lies on either side of narrowly-defined treatment guidelines and messy realities.

Machine is an easy clean up: pods mean no messy coffee grounds.

Owners of the neighborhood's scrap yards, auto body shops and other such messy concerns banded.

Beyond that some students have given me plaques with funny things about doctoral work or my messy office.

Sovereign-debt crises are messy because there is no clear legal procedure.

Rather they are messy approximations that manage to get people's point across.

The messy melodrama of life-all the failed diets and fading friendships-becomes a sterile cartoon.

What you see in the gallery are the messy remains of brief performances in which he operates his contraptions.

His writing is up to a messy second grader, so he is making progress on that.

There may have been concerns about a messy scrap for the top post that could damage feelings and push out talent.

The bullfrog tried to cross the road, with tragic messy results.

These simple mechanisms are noisy, messy and a little bit dangerous.

But it also entails a decision-making process that is more complicated and messy than previously thought.

The cycle of natural justice is awe-inspiring but messy.

Presiding over a messy but largely functioning polity has been a revered.

These changes could lead to different serotypes with various drug resistance patterns…it was all so messy.

But the voltaic pile was expensive and could be messy.

The highly emotional trial laid bare all of the complicated, sad and messy business of one family for public scrutiny.

In reality it was a messy series of civil wars-an on.

The messy part, of course, is getting from here to there.

But there was no dating, no wooing, not even a messy oil wet spot in this survival-of-the-fastest experiment.

The current process for manufacturing it is a rather messy one involving ergot, a parasite of rye.

We're expecting a beefed up speaker, but those holes look too messy.

Any compromise on how to handle cross-listing companies and their audits would by necessity be messy.

The trouble with this is that you need lots of oil, and it's messy filtering it back into the bottles.

The generals overseeing the necessarily messy transition have been failing to keep up the momentum of change.

It's a gray and messy area, and there aren't any grand truths to clean it all up.

As a result, hadron collisions can be messy and difficult to interpret.

However, coals are messy and harder to lug around, and they spew smoke.

As new, small markets are tacked on to its empire, it risks overstretching an already messy structure.

The forthcoming iVerse comic reader sells everything, and does it in a rather messy way.

They end with a wet pop, leaving behind messy splatters.

So it's good that people see the scientific debate here is messy and spirited and confusing and even sometimes a bit nasty.

Authenticity, on the other hand, believes in the messy process of creativity.

Apple favors the pristine orderliness of autocracy to the messy freedom of an open system.

The movements are messy and straightforward-visceral displays of human gutmeat against tile and blade.

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World English Dictionary

messy (ˈmɛsɪ)

—*adj* , messier, messiest
	dirty, confused, or untidy

'messily

—*adv*

'messiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

messy

"untidy," 1843, from mess + -y (2).

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