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Synonyms for mess
mɛsmess
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Princeton's WordNet
mess, messiness, muss, mussinessnoun
a state of confusion and disorderliness
"the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
Synonyms:
tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, untidiness, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, potfix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishnoun
informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
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tidy sum, smother, peck, mint, crush, plenty, lot, location, locating, localisation, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, mare's nest, press, jam, pile, muckle, fixture, mend, golf hole, electronic jamming, good deal, maw, fixing, mending, sight, gob, trap, deal, pickle, flock, stack, kettle of fish, fuddle, wad, messiness, hatful, mickle, hollow, heap, great deal, repair, clutter, mess hall, mass, jamming, batch, yap, mountain, welter, spate, mussiness, slew, localization, jumble, cakehole, muss, muddle, reparation, potmessnoun
soft semiliquid food
"a mess of porridge"
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tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, potmessnoun
a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
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tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, potmess, mess hallnoun
a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
Synonyms:
tidy sum, peck, mint, plenty, messiness, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, jam, spate, muckle, pile, lot, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, pickle, kettle of fish, muss, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess hall, sight, mass, mussiness, great deal, muddle, potbatch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadverb
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
Synonyms:
push-down list, flock, destiny, bulk, cud, chaw, multitude, upsurge, atomic reactor, pile, quid, deal, spile, smokestack, caboodle, crapper, commode, throne, troop, fold, bay window, stool, softwood, chew, gage, push-down store, push-down storage, weed, hand, heap, surge, kitty, jalopy, smoke, muddle, band, lot, passel, slew, vision, freshet, potbelly, mussiness, jam, muss, hole, flowerpot, mint candy, visual modality, quite a little, clutch, luck, plentifulness, toilet, masses, ken, mess hall, down, atomic pile, messiness, the great unwashed, peck, tummy, agglomerate, sight, volume, wad, plug, mount, potty, set, nap, portion, skunk, push-down stack, chain reactor, rush, mound, good deal, big money, galvanic pile, pickle, sens, bundle, fate, voltaic pile, draw, stilt, green goddess, people, visual sense, sess, batch, view, pot, stack, bunch, spate, plenteousness, locoweed, piling, bus, bargain, mountain, survey, business deal, plenty, potentiometer, mint, dope, plentitude, cumulus, plenitude, raft, jackpot, mickle, can, big bucks, kettle of fish, mass, tidy sum, corporation, circumstances, hatful, potful, megabucks, circle, grass, great deal, trade, cumulation, fix, muckle, fortune, hoi polloimessverb
eat in a mess hall
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mess upmess, mess upverb
make a mess of or create disorder in
"He messed up his room"
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ruffle up, spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, rumple, bollix, foul up, bodge, flub, fumble, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, louse up, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, ruffle, muck up, bumble, bollocks up, muff
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
messnoun
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dishmessnoun
messnoun
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medley, mixture, miscellany, farrago, hotch-potch, hodge-podge, jumble, salmagundi, mish-mash, olio, OLLA PODRIDA, confused mass, MÉLANGEmessverb
Synonyms:
eat in company, take meals at the same table
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
MESS
Synonyms:
Mangled Extremity Severity Score
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How to use mess in a sentence?
Egypt is the most stable country in this big mess. We've acknowledged the mess in Libya, the mess in Iraq, in Syria, the fact is, Egypt is solid, Egypt is stable. We are actually the last pillar of resistance against uncertainties.
I think trying to turn Wen into a target to cancel is ridiculous, i consider public health response to Covid to be a mess, and I think part of the reason Wen has become a lightning rod is, she's kind of being put out there as an example by people in public health who are disappointed or frustrated of that failure.
We worked so hard for everything and just to have it pulled out from underneath you through no fault of your own... [ My wife and I ] had plans to travel and do something in our twilight years, but we've gone through all our savings and are pretty heavily in debt, it'll be hard for us to get out of this mess, but I think we will.
The Iranians, as they have done all along, continued to manipulate them, continued to try and mess with them and prevented Yeggie for leaving for some period of time.
I tell myself I should be able to shake this off and deal with it. Yet here I am -- a mess. if you have a very overprotective parent, which would be myself, your children don't get to lead a normal life -- get on a bus, go on a field trip, stay the night with a friend. And that's been very difficult.
Translations for mess
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- تعبثArabic
- garbuixCatalan, Valencian
- nepořádekCzech
- annibendodWelsh
- rod, messeDanish
- Messe, DurcheinanderGerman
- kaĉoEsperanto
- desorden, leoneraSpanish
- بهم ریختگیPersian
- bordel, foutoir, gâchis, chenis, fouillis, messeFrench
- összevisszaság, zűrzavar, rendetlenségHungarian
- անկարգություն, խառնաշփոթArmenian
- kekacauanIndonesian
- sconquasso, messa, casino, percorso ad ostacoli, confusione, macello, rovinaItalian
- 混乱Japanese
- უწესრიგობა, უსიამოვნებაGeorgian
- ಅವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆKannada
- pōwhiwhiMāori
- mis, dienst, puinhoop, zootje, gebedsdienstDutch
- bagunça, missaPortuguese
- ме́сиво, ме́сса, беспоря́док, пу́таница, барда́кRussian
- röra, mässaSwedish
- ความสับสนThai
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