What are some opposite words for messy?

Antonyms for messy
ˈmɛs imessy

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Wiktionary2.3 / 3 votes

  1. messyadjective

    Antonyms:
    orderly, neat

  2. messyadjective

    a messy office

    Antonyms:
    orderly, neat

  3. messyadjective

    He is the messiest person I've ever met.

    Antonyms:
    orderly, neat

  4. messyadjective

    a messy divorce

    Antonyms:
    orderly, neat

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 2 votes

  1. messy, mussyadjective

    dirty and disorderly

    "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

    Antonyms:
    tidy

    Synonyms:
    mussy

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. presentable

    this is an antonym because if you are messy you are not fit to be seen.

    the boy had to change his shirt because it was messy with mud and grass.

    Submitted by rinat on November 22, 2015  
  2. scrawled

    scrawled it hurried or written carelessly

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  
  3. tidily

    dirty

    the room is messy

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use messy in a sentence?

  1. Ryan Pack:

    I'm like a messy garden that needs to be landscaped. Only after I've been properly and appropriately landscaped will you see my true potential.

  2. Abby Kohut:

    People just assume that ifyour desk is messy, your head is messy.

  3. Viola Davis:

    I'd like to thank Paul Lee, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Pete Nowalk for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark-skinned African-American woman who looks like me.

  4. Elana Benatar:

    We are all figuring it out, it might get a little messy.

  5. Barack Obama:

    My family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun, hell, not being a buzzkill. And sometimes Democrats are. Sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#10534neat
#14281messy
#18848tidy
#20349orderly

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