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Synonyms for mess
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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, pot

  2. fix, 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"

    Synonyms:
    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, pot

  3. messnoun

    soft semiliquid food

    "a mess of porridge"

    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, pot

  4. messnoun

    a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

    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, pot

  5. mess, 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, pot

  6. batch, 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 polloi

  7. messverb

    eat in a mess hall

    Synonyms:
    mess up

  8. mess, mess upverb

    make a mess of or create disorder in

    "He messed up his room"

    Synonyms:
    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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. messnoun

    Synonyms:
    dish

  2. messnoun

    Synonyms:
    set (who eat together), company

  3. messnoun

    Synonyms:
    medley, mixture, miscellany, farrago, hotch-potch, hodge-podge, jumble, salmagundi, mish-mash, olio, OLLA PODRIDA, confused mass, MÉLANGE

  4. messverb

    Synonyms:
    eat in company, take meals at the same table

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. messnoun

    Synonyms:
    rations, food, mixture, medley, farrago, litter, hodgepodge, jumble, mélange

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD4.0 / 1 vote

  1. MESS

    Synonyms:
    Mangled Extremity Severity Score

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How to use mess in a sentence?

  1. Shai Berman:

    It's a mess, we have a big problem.

  2. Jim McCormick:

    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.

  3. Kamala Harris:

    To not mess up.

  4. Mike Lawler:

    Sean Maloney’s solution to tackling inflation is: let them eat Chef Boyardee!, it shows just how out of touch he is work [sic] the struggles of seniors, working families, and those in need of assistance. Voters understand the only way to fix it, is to fire the very politicians who have created this mess in the first place, which is why Sean Maloney will lose on Election Day!

  5. Steve Nash:

    I played okay in my first preseason game but when I woke up that next morning and was a mess, that was when I started to think long and hard about what I was really capable of, about a week later, I played again and wasn't nearly ready. I felt I had to try and see if this was something I could break through after a few minutes on the court, and I clearly wasn't. I knew then I'd be lucky to play 10( NBA) games this season.


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