Synonyms for messy
ˈmɛs imessy

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. messyadjective

   Antonyms:
   orderly, neat

2. messyadjective

   a messy office

   Antonyms:
   orderly, neat

3. messyadjective

   He is the messiest person I've ever met.

   Antonyms:
   orderly, neat

4. messyadjective

   a messy divorce

   Antonyms:
   orderly, neat

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:5.0 / 2 votes

1. messy, mussyadjective

   dirty and disorderly

   "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

   Synonyms:
   mussy

   Antonyms:
   tidy

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1. List of paraphrases for "messy":

   disorderly, disordered, chaotic, ruckus, confused, dirty, confusing, sloppy, complicated

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How to use messy in a sentence?

1. Mohamed El-Erian:

   We should welcome and be relieved in relative terms, but markets should be prepared for...an uncertain and messy implementation process.

2. Paul Ryan:

   Governing is tough—we’ve gone from being the opposition party for the last 10 years to being a governing party within the last four months, it looks messy, but this is the system the founders envisioned—we either repeal and replace and make tax reform easier, and if we don’t, it will make tax reform $1 trillion harder.

3. Jamal Khashoggi:

   The promise of accountability was the only check on this guy [ MBS ], now it's gone, when the President of the US goes to this murderer's hometown to appease him, he's not only glossing over his past heinous crimes with stunning impunity but enabling his future ones. It's a wink-wink nudge-nudge to commit the next crime in a cleaner, less messy fashion.

4. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

5. Albert Wu:

   You'd need to be specific about the diagnosis you're interested in, there's a lot of places where this could be messy.