Synonyms for disorder
dɪsˈɔr dərdis·or·der

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1. disordernoun

   Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.

   After playing the children left the room in disorder.

   Synonyms:
   entropy, chaos

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1. disorder

   Disease is the general term for any deviation from health; in a more limited sense it denotes some definite morbid condition; disorder and affection are rather partial and limited; as, a nervous affection; a disorder of the digestive system. Sickness was generally used in English speech and literature, till the close of the eighteenth century at least, for every form of physical disorder, as abundantly appears in the English Bible: "Jesus went about ... healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people," Matt. iv, 23; "Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died," 2 Kings xiii, 14. There is now, in England, a tendency to restrict the words sick and sickness to nausea, or "sickness at the stomach," and to hold ill and illness as the only proper words to use in a general sense. This distinction has received but a very limited acceptance in the United States, where sick and sickness have the earlier and wider usage. We speak of trifling ailments, a slight indisposition, a serious or a deadly disease; a slight or severe illness; a painful sickness. Complaint is a popular term, which may be applied to any degree of ill health, slight or severe. Infirmity denotes a chronic or lingering weakness or disability, as blindness or lameness.

   Synonyms:
   affection, ailment, complaint, disease, distemper, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness

   Antonyms:
   health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor

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1. disorder, upsetnoun

   a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning

   "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"

   Synonyms:
   perturbation, overturn, disorderliness, swage, turnover, overthrow, disturbance, derangement, upset

   Antonyms:
   orderliness, order

2. disorderliness, disordernoun

   a condition in which things are not in their expected places

   "the files are in complete disorder"

   Synonyms:
   rowdiness, upset, disorderliness, rowdyism, disarray, roughness

   Antonyms:
   orderliness, order

3. disorderverb

   a disturbance of the peace or of public order

   Synonyms:
   upset, disorderliness

   Antonyms:
   order, orderliness

4. perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorderverb

   disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

   "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"

   Synonyms:
   distract, unhinge, perturb, inconvenience oneself, upset, inconvenience, ail, discommode, disquiet, bother, cark, deflect, put out, incommode, disoblige, pain, disarray, throw out of kilter, trouble, disturb, trouble oneself, derange

   Antonyms:
   order, orderliness

5. disorder, disarrayverb

   bring disorder to

   Synonyms:
   cark, trouble, disquiet, unhinge, disarray, perturb, distract

   Antonyms:
   order, orderliness

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Condition
   • Physical Condition
   • Upset

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1. disordernoun

   Synonyms:
   confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorganization, irregularity, jumble, want of order

2. disordernoun

   Synonyms:
   tumult, disturbance, commotion, turbulence, tumultuousness, riotousness

3. disordernoun

   Synonyms:
   distemper, complaint, malady, sickness, disease, ail, ailment, indisposition

4. disorderverb

   Synonyms:
   derange, disarrange, disturb, discompose, confuse, unsettle, disorganize, throw into confusion, turn topsy-turvy, put out of place

5. disorderverb

   Synonyms:
   impair the functions of, produce disease in

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1. disordernoun

   Synonyms:
   confusion, disarray, disarrangement, disorganization, jumble, chaos, litter, irregularity, disturbance, tumult, riot, turmoil, bedlam, fracas, pandemonium

2. disorderverb

   Synonyms:
   disarrange, confuse, jumble, disorganize, tousle, derange, discompose

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1. List of paraphrases for "disorder":

   disorders, unrest, chaos, mess, disarray, turmoil, disruption, disturbance, post-traumatic, clutter, trouble, strife, impairment, lawlessness, upheaval, cloudy, confusion, mayhem, disease, illness, condition, affection, disturbs, dislocation, anarchy, turbulence

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1. Confucius:

   The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

2. Luisa Maria Calderon:

   You can't resolve disorder with more disorder, the state has the monopoly over force, and you can't delegate it to groups of whatever order.

3. John Oldham:

   They ca n’t tolerate to acknowledge that they’re the ones with Borderline Personality Disorder, so they blame others instead, borderline Personality Disorder’s virtually toxic for them to own that their rage and anger is not justified by another person, but actually coming from inside.

4. Nora Volkow:

   This particular study is a step forward in that we can now state with a higher degree of confidence that cannabis use is associated with an increased prevalence and incidence of substance use disorders but less likely to be linked with any mood disorder or anxiety disorder.

5. Michel de Montaigne:

   So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.