| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaos, clutter |
Synonyms: |
anarchy, ataxia, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, disorderliness, disorganization, huddle, irregularity, jumble, mess, muddle, rat's nest, shambles, snarl, topsyturviness, untidiness |
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arrangement, conformity, method, order, orderliness, organization, system |
| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social commotion; mental confusion |
Synonyms: |
agitation, anarchism, anarchy, brawl, bustle, chaos, clamor, complication, convulsion, discombobulation, discord, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, dither, entanglement, fight, flap, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hullabaloo*, imbroglio, insurrection, lawlessness, mayhem, misrule, mob rule, quarrel, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot, rioting, ruckus, rumpus, static, strike, terrorism, tizzy, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unruliness, uproar |
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health |
| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illness |
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affliction, ailment, cachexia, complaint, disease, diseasedness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealth, upset |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up, disarrange |
Synonyms: |
clutter, confound, confuse, derange, discompose, discreate, dishevel, disjoint, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, distemper, disturb, embroil, jumble, mess up, muddle, muss up, rummage, rumple, scatter, shuffle, tumble, unsettle, upset |
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arrange, conform, neaten, order, regulate, systematize |
| Concept: | [Absence, or want of order] Disorder. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
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-nouns
disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; disunion; discord., confusion; confusedness; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles [Ovid]., turmoil; ferment (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.
-verbs
-adjectives
disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous (unconformable); acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; confused; deranged; topsy-turvy (inverted) [more]; shapeless; disjointed, out of joint., troublous; riotous (violent).
-adverbs
irregularly; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down.
-phrases
the cart before the horse; chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" [Addison].
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Antonyms: |
order |
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| Main Entry: | affliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt condition; something that causes hurt |
Synonyms: |
adversity, anguish, calamity, cross, crux, depression, difficulty, disease, disorder, distress, grief, hardship, illness, infirmity, misery, misfortune, ordeal, pain, plague, plight, scourge, sickness, sorrow, suffering, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe |
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aid, comfort, consolation, health, help, relief |
| Main Entry: | ailment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mild sickness |
Synonyms: |
ache, bug, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, dose, flu, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, syndrome |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | anarchy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawlessness; absence of government |
Synonyms: |
chaos, confusion, disorder, disorganization, disregard, hostility, misrule, mob rule, nihilism, nongovernment, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot, turmoil, unrest |
Antonyms: |
lawfulness, order, rule |
| Main Entry: | brawl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nasty fight |
Synonyms: |
affray, altercation, argument, battle, battle royal, bickering, broil, clash, disorder, dispute, donnybrook, duke out, feud, fight, fracas, fray, free-for-all, fuss, hassle, melee, quarrel, rhubarb, riot, row, ruckus*, rumble*, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, squabble, tumult, uproar, wrangle |
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peace, truce |
| Main Entry: | chaos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utter confusion |
Synonyms: |
anarchy, ataxia, bedlam, clutter, disarray, discord, disorder, disorganization, entropy, free-for-all, holy mess, lawlessness, misrule, mix-up, mobocracy, muddle, pandemonium, rat's nest, snarl, topsy-turviness, tumult, turmoil, unruliness |
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calm, harmony, normality, order, organization, quiet, system |