German

Noun

Messy m ‎(genitive Messys, plural Messys)

1. Alternative spelling of Messie

Declension

English

Adjective

messy ‎(comparative messier, superlative messiest)

1. (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.

   a messy office‎

   Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.‎

2. (of a person) Prone to causing mess.

   He is the messiest person I've ever met.‎

3. (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.

   a messy divorce‎

Synonyms

(in a disorderly state): untidy, chaotic, disorderly, cluttered

Antonyms

• neat
• orderly

Derived terms

• messily
• messiness

Descendants

• German: Messie

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