| Main Entry: | shambles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a mess |
Synonyms: |
anarchy, babel, bedlam, botch, chaos, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, hash, havoc, hodge-podge, madhouse, maelstrom, mess-up, mix-up, muddle |
Antonyms: |
order, organization |
| Main Entry: | shamble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shuffle |
Synonyms: |
break the deck, change, change the order, confuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, intermix, jumble, mess up*, scuff, scuffle, shift |
| Main Entry: | bedlam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaotic situation |
Synonyms: |
chaos, clamor, commotion, confusion, din, disquiet, disquietude, furor, hubbub, madhouse, maelstrom, noise, pandemonium, racket, shambles, tumult, turmoil, uproar |
Antonyms: |
calm, peace, quiet |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, blitz, blood, blood and guts, blood bath, bloodshed, butchering, butchery, crime, extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing, liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine, search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, taking out, warfare, wasting |
| Main Entry: | confusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disoriented state |
Synonyms: |
abashment, ado, anarchy, astonishment, bustle, chaos, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, consternation, daze, difficulty, disarray, discomposure, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, emotional upset, ferment, fog, fracas, haze, hodge-podge, imbroglio, intricacy, jumble, labyrinth, mess, mistake, muddle, mystification, pandemonium, perturbation, racket, riot, row, shambles, stir, stupefaction, surprise, tangle, trouble, tumult, turmoil, untidiness, upheaval, uproar, wilderness |
Antonyms: |
calm, clarity, composure, method, order, organization, orientation, system |
| Main Entry: | disarray |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder, confusion, mess |
Synonyms: |
anarchy, ataxia, chaos, clutter, disarrangement, discomposure, disharmony, dishevelment, disorganization, holy mess, indiscipline, jumble, muddle, shambles, snarl, tangle, topsy-turviness, unholy mess, unruliness, untidiness, upset |
Antonyms: |
arrangement, harmony, order, orderliness, organization |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
arrangement, conformity, method, order, orderliness, organization, system |
| Main Entry: | drag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move very slowly |
Synonyms: |
be delayed, be quiescent, crawl, creep, dally, dawdle*, delay, encounter difficulty, hang*, inch, lag, lag behind, limp along, linger, loiter, mark time, poke*, procrastinate, put off*, sag, shamble, shuffle, slow down, stagnate, straggle, tarry, trail behind, traipse |
Antonyms: |
rush |
| Main Entry: | hash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mess, mix-up |
Synonyms: |
assortment, clutter, confusion, hodgepodge*, hotchpotch, jumble, litter, medley, miscellany, mishmash, muddle*, mélange, salmagundi, shambles, stew |
| Main Entry: | havoc |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaotic situation |
Synonyms: |
calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chaos, confusion, damage, desolation, despoiling, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, disorder, disruption, loss, mayhem, plunder, rack and ruin, ravages, ruination, shambles, vandalism, waste, wreck, wreckage |
Antonyms: |
peace |