Definition of messy
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messy
[
mes
-ee ]
/ ˈmɛs i /
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adjective,
mess·i·er,
mess·i·est.
characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
a messy room.
causing a
mess
:
a messy recipe; messy work.
embarrassing, difficult, or unpleasant:
a messy political situation.
characterized by moral or psychological confusion.
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Origin of
messy
OTHER WORDS FROM messy
mess·i·ness,
noun
Words nearby
messy
messroom
,
Messrs.
,
messuage
,
mess-up
,
mess with
,
messy
,
mestee
,
mester
,
mestiza
,
mestizo
,
mestome
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021
Words related to
messy
chaotic
,
confused
,
sloppy
,
blotchy
,
careless
,
disheveled
,
disordered
,
disorganized
,
grimy
,
grubby
,
muddled
,
raunchy
,
slapdash
,
slipshod
,
slovenly
,
unkempt
,
untidy
,
littered
,
rumpled
,
unfastidious
Example sentences from the Web for
messy
It was clear that Apple’s antiquated App Store rules needed an update, but now that we see their solution, it’s clear that things are going to be very
messy
for platform operators and game developers that were hoping for an easy solution.
Apple lays out its messy vision for how xCloud and Stadia will work with its App Store rules
|
Lucas Matney
|
September 11, 2020
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TechCrunch
These soft, elegant towels can go up against even the messiest food spills.
Dish towels to tackle almost any mess
|
PopSci Commerce Team
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September 10, 2020
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Popular Science
What you usually get is
messy
, frustratingly slow progress, and self-doubt about your own voice and skills.
Book recommendations from Fortune’s 40 under 40 in government and policy
|
Rachel King
|
September 10, 2020
|
Fortune
The formula for these points was quite
messy
, but if you’d like to see it nevertheless, check out the write-ups of Laurent Lessard, who found a condition on these values, and David Zimmerman, who attempted to find a closed-form solution.
|
Zach Wissner-Gross
|
August 28, 2020
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FiveThirtyEight
The battle to secure as many vaccine doses as possible, once approved, could prove an even messier fight given that a limited number of companies are trying to address the problems of the entire world.
The COVID vaccine arms race and the struggles of the supply chain
|
Sy Mukherjee
|
August 20, 2020
|
Fortune
If you think divorce between two people is
messy
and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.
Why Singles Should Say ‘I Don’t’ to The Self-Marriage Movement
|
Tim Teeman
|
December 30, 2014
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DAILY BEAST
But there is a
messy
middle territory between demonization and idealization.
|
Nathaniel Rich
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December 29, 2014
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DAILY BEAST
THE NEW YORK TIMES/JILL ABRAMSON DISASTER: It was
messy
enough when, on May 14, New York Times Co.
The Bloodiest Media Coups of 2014
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Lloyd Grove
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December 22, 2014
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DAILY BEAST
In another, they sit smiling inside their Los Angeles apartment at a
messy
kitchen table.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings
|
Melissa Leon
|
December 15, 2014
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DAILY BEAST
Their inevitable divorce was
messy
, bitter, and packed with bizarre occurrences.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else
|
Allen Barra
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October 24, 2014
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DAILY BEAST
I can’t bear ugly,
messy
places; above all,
messy
, untidy places make me perfectly cross and miserable.’
|
Mary Louisa Molesworth
There used to be a very
messy
, rocky desert here, and we used to have to scrabble and scratch our way to the monument.
|
Marion Zimmer Bradley
There was something so
messy
about dish-washing, ordinary dish-washing; milk-pans were different.
|
Beth B. Gilchrist
Fishing seemed a
messy
business—an uncouth trade among uncouth men.
|
Frederick William Wallace
I did write out my translations on an extra paper first, for I didnt want to make any erasures and have a
messy
paper.
|
David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
British Dictionary definitions for
messy
messy
/ (
ˈmɛsɪ
) /
adjective
messier
or
messiest
dirty, confused, or untidy
Derived forms of messy
messily
,
adverb
messiness
,
noun
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