as in messy
lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness
keeping a cluttered workshop makes it hard to find the right tool
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as in clogged
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as in disorganized
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Recent Examples of cluttered
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Reduce rodent habitat around your home, workplace, and recreational areas by removing brush, rock piles, junk, cluttered firewood and possible rodent food supplies.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
Everyone, no matter their design aesthetic, strives to maintain a clean home, but what if some of your decorating decisions are actually making your space look dirtier and more cluttered?
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
Many high earners unknowingly turn their retirement into a cluttered collection of accounts with no clear plan.
—Larry Light, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In fact, kitchen design experts say that certain everyday choices, like cluttered countertops or tired finishes, can quietly sabotage your kitchen’s style, chipping away at its comfort and appeal.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2025
Now supposedly dying from some terminal illness, Julian has gone total hermit mode inside of his cluttered London apartment, where the walls are festooned with the relics of his success and the backrooms are a junk pile of painful memories.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
The Android app's user interface is a bit cluttered.
—Kim Key, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Through a succession of job changes, a don’t-open-the-mail approach to bill paying, abrupt moves to and from a string of increasingly cluttered abodes, Uhle recounts with humor and remarkable detail the unstable circumstances of her youth.
—Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
Continuous operation, robust error recovery, and adaptation to cluttered, dynamic human spaces have not been demonstrated publicly.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Reduce rodent habitat around your home, workplace, and recreational areas by removing brush, rock piles, junk, cluttered firewood and possible rodent food supplies.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
Everyone, no matter their design aesthetic, strives to maintain a clean home, but what if some of your decorating decisions are actually making your space look dirtier and more cluttered?
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
Many high earners unknowingly turn their retirement into a cluttered collection of accounts with no clear plan.
—Larry Light, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In fact, kitchen design experts say that certain everyday choices, like cluttered countertops or tired finishes, can quietly sabotage your kitchen’s style, chipping away at its comfort and appeal.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2025
Now supposedly dying from some terminal illness, Julian has gone total hermit mode inside of his cluttered London apartment, where the walls are festooned with the relics of his success and the backrooms are a junk pile of painful memories.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
The Android app's user interface is a bit cluttered.
—Kim Key, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Through a succession of job changes, a don’t-open-the-mail approach to bill paying, abrupt moves to and from a string of increasingly cluttered abodes, Uhle recounts with humor and remarkable detail the unstable circumstances of her youth.
—Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cluttered
Adjective
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This subsequently brought her messy blond hair to the forefront, choppy bangs and all.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
26 Sep. 2025
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The writer’s room need not be neat, could in fact be the one space of the house where things are supposed to be messy, to show a mind at work.—
Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The floor sinks beneath the food prep sink and at the front counter were clogged and filled with water.—
Sarah Linn,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the morning, five vehicles clogged the driveway at the home of shooting suspect Thomas Stanford, in Burton, about 9 miles north of the LDS church in Grand Blanc Township.—
Dave Boucher,
Freep.com,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg dropped a bombshell on Democrats last week, one lost in the chaotic news cycle following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.—
Boston Herald Editorial Staff,
Twin Cities,
26 Sep. 2025
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Surveillance video obtained by Fox News shows the chaotic moments when ICE agents took cover and protected detainees as gunfire rained down on them from outside a Dallas facility Wednesday morning.—
Peter D'Abrosca , Brooke Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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However, a different vibe soon filled the arena once the countdown clock reached zero and a video charting Kirk's career from 18-year-old organizer to one of the GOP’s most prominent activists came on-screen.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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What’s the difference between a boss who is optimistic, practices positive thinking, coaches, and inspires their team and a bad boss who is just filled with toxic positivity?—
Mita Mallick,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Tune in next week to see how this all gets jumbled up again.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Those aren’t just random words jumbled together to test your reading comprehension—they’re the outcome of recent brand collaborations with Liquid Death.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The New York Knicks are burdened with big contracts, and the franchise was facing the possibility of hitting the luxury tax threshold, though All-Defensive forward Mikal Bridges helped the organization by taking a notable pay cut.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Enocch Marshall’s no stranger to being cost-burdened or living paycheck-to-paycheck.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Every school was feeling its way around to some degree when the NCAA rule changes arrived in the summer of 2021, and myriad state laws muddled the picture even further.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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So, Horn’s opportunity for activation seems muddled at best — justified or not.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Cluttered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cluttered. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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