untidy

un·ti·dy

adjective \-ˈtī-dē\

Definition of UNTIDY

1

a : not neat : slovenly <their untidy kitchen>

b : not neat or orderly in habits or procedure <an untidy mind>

2

a : not neatly organized or carried out <an untidy manuscript>

b : conducive to a lack of neatness <untidy tasks like bathing the baby — New Yorker>

— un·ti·di·ly \-ˈtī-də-lē\ adverb

— un·ti·di·ness \-ˈtī-dē-nəs\ noun

Examples of UNTIDY

1. <I can never find anything in this untidy office.>
2. <neighbors gossiped about the woman's rumpled and untidy children>

First Known Use of UNTIDY

14th century

Related to UNTIDY

Synonyms

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, muddled, mussed, mussy, pell-mell, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, unkempt, messy, upside-down

Antonyms

bandbox, crisp, kempt, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized, shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered

Related Words

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, smudged, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly; dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), shaggy, slatternly, sloven, slovenly, uncombed; wrinkled; adulterated, contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted; knotted, snarled, tangled; seedy, shabby, sleazy, sordid; neglected, neglectful, negligent

Near Antonyms

antiseptic, clean, cleaned, cleanly, hygienic, immaculate, sparkling, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied; methodical (also methodic), regular, systematic, systematized; careful, fastidious, finicky, fussy, meticulous; combed, groomed, manicured, well-groomed; taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesome

Rhymes with UNTIDY

alcaide, girl Friday, Good Friday, man Friday