messy

See also: Messy

English

From mess +‎ -y.

messy (comparative messier, superlative messiest)

(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
  Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.
a messy office

Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.
(of a person) Prone to causing mess.
He is the messiest person I've ever met.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
a messy divorce

in a disorderly state; causing mess or confusion; chaotic; disorderly

Indonesian: berantakan (id)
Italian: disordinato (it)
Japanese: 乱雑な (ja) (らんざつな, ranzatsu na), きたない (ja) (kitanai) (dirty), ぐちゃぐちゃ (guchagucha) (sloppy)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Krio: chaka-chaka
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Maori: pōrohe, hahohaho
Portuguese: desorganizado (pt), bagunçado, caótico (pt), desordenado (pt)
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: беспоря́дочный (ru) (besporjádočnyj) (disorderly), гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj) (dirty), неря́шливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj) (sloppy)
Spanish: desordenado (es)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: darmadağınık (tr), karmakarışık (tr), (colloquial) karman çorman, pasaklı (tr)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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