Synonyms for messy
ˈmɛs imessy

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 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 WordNetRate this synonym:5.0 / 2 votes

1. messy, mussyadjective

   dirty and disorderly

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

   Synonyms:
   mussy

   Antonyms:
   tidy

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "messy":

   disorderly, disordered, chaotic, ruckus, confused, dirty, confusing, sloppy, complicated

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1. Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung:

   It's going to be messy in terms of margins. It's going to be messy in terms earnings. The visibility is not going to be great.

2. Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan:

   Read MoreAttempts could terminate those contracts if Read MoreAttempts want to, but Read MoreAttempts's going to be a very lengthy, messy process, we're going to have to go into settlement agreements with each individual contractor.

3. Katherine Lewis:

   Our lives are messy, and our homes should not be shrines to perfection. They are places where we go to experiment, our kids are always changing. This is not a static situation.

4. Kelly Armstrong:

   Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

5. Charles Sizemore:

   For an investor wanting a high-risk/potentially high-return trade, I would say going long Greek stocks makes sense, if cooler heads prevail and Greece avoids a messy exit, Greek stocks are a bargain.