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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
Synonyms:
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?
Alaskans know I'm the last one who'll ever retreat. Instead, I'm going to reload, with optimism that Alaskans learn from this voting system mistake and correct it in the next election, let's work even harder to send an America First conservative to Washington in November. It's the only way to clean up the mess that President Joe Biden in 2020 and the radical Democrats have made of things.
Listen, we don’t have two parties in Washington. We have one corrupt bipartisan mess in Washington.
Don't mess with your memories.... only they have the power to return from the dead.
Real yield in local currency debt relative to developed market debt is near an 8- to 10-year high, and somewhere between 150-200 bps above where we were right before the (2013) taper tantrum, it's not a great environment for local currency ... (but) the protection that you are being offered should get you through the worst part of the mess.
It's a real mess down here.
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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