English > untidy: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | not neat and tidy. |
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| Examples | - "careless and untidy in her personal habits"
- "an untidy living room"
- "untidy and casual about money"
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| Narrower | blowsy, blowzy, slatternly, sluttish | characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern |
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| cluttered, littered | Filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish |
| disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled | In disarray |
| disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy | In utter disorder |
| frowsy, frowzy, slovenly | negligent of neatness especially in dress and person |
| messy, mussy | dirty and disorderly |
| scraggly | lacking neatness or order |
| sloppy | lacking neatness or order |
| slouchy | lacking stiffness in form or posture |
| sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly | Spreading out in different directions |
| unkempt | not properly maintained or cared for |
| See also | dirty, soiled, unclean | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime |
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| unfastidious | Marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail |
| ungroomed | not neat and smart in appearance |
| Opposite | tidy | marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits |
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| Spanish | desarreglado, desaseado, desordenado, desorganizado, sucio |
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| Catalan | desordenat |
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| Nouns | untidiness | the trait of being untidy and messy |
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| untidiness | the condition of being untidy |
| Adverbs | untidily | in a messy, untidy manner |
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