Synonyms: untidy
Definition: not neat and tidy
Usage: careless and untidy in her personal habits; an untidy living room; untidy and casual about money
Similar words: slatternly, sluttish, blowsy, blowzy
Definition: characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
Similar words: cluttered, littered
Definition: filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish
Usage: the storm left the drivewaylittered with sticks nd debris; his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair
Similar words: frowzled, rumpled, tousled, disheveled, dishevelled
Definition: in disarray; extremely disorderly
Usage: her clothing was disheveled; powder-smeared and frowzled; a rumpled unmade bed; a bed with tousled sheets; his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly- Al Spiers
Similar words: disorderly, jumbled, topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger
Definition: in utter disorder
Usage: a disorderly pile of clothes
Similar words: slovenly, frowsy, frowzy
Definition: negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
Usage: filled the door with her frowzy bulk; frowzy white hair; slovenly appearance
Definition: dirty and disorderly
Usage: a mussy fussy bedroom; a child's messy eating habits
Similar words: scraggly
Definition: lacking neatness or order
Usage: the old man's scraggly beard; a scraggly little path to the door
Similar words: sloppy
Definition: lacking neatness or order
Usage: a sloppy room; sloppy habits
Similar words: slouchy
Definition: lacking stiffness in form or posture
Usage: a slouchy sweater
Similar words: sprawling, rambling, straggling, straggly
Definition: spreading out in different directions
Usage: sprawling handwriting; straggling branches; straggly hair
Similar words: unkempt
Definition: not properly maintained or cared for
Usage: an unkempt garden; native vistas and unkempt rambling paths; an ukempt appearance