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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1. Nick Clegg:

   If they try to stagger through with a messy and unstable minority government instead of putting the country first then they will risk all the hard work and sacrifices people have made over the last five years, the last thing Britain needs is a second election before Christmas. But that is exactly what will happen if (Labour leader) Ed Miliband and David Cameron put their own political interest ahead of the national interest.

2. Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung:

   It's going to be messy in terms of margins. It's going to be messy in terms earnings. The visibility is not going to be great.

3. Rand Paul:

   It's hard to determine who is moderate and who is not moderate, it's a very messy situation to people on both sides of that civil war who aren't necessarily our friends.

4. Cole Whittle:

   It's romantic, it's fun, it's messy, it's party, it's sexual, it's 'Animal House' the band.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.