DISORDEREDNESS Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

disorderedness

noun

as in hell

a state in which everything is out of order the disarray in his car seemed to be a reflection of the general disorderedness of his life

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Noun

The face appears on the lower left side of The Last Judgement where the dead are rising from the ground before either ascending to paradise or descending to hell.

— News Desk, Artforum, 5 Nov. 2026
His second, a collaboration with the Times puzzle editor Tracy Bennett, was a hefty Sunday puzzle rife with just-for-the-hell-of-it wordplay.

— New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of hell

Noun

Last year, business leaders reached out to the mayor’s team to express their fears that the City Council’s plan to raise the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 per hour would wreak financial havoc on the city’s hospitality industry.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Meanwhile, the war has wreaked global havoc with no end in sight.

— S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of havoc

Noun

Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.

— Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026

Definition of jumble

Noun

If Uncle Sam does not change course, America’s unsustainable fiscal mess will result in adverse economic, national security, foreign relations, and domestic tranquility consequences.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026
Andrew Schaefer, a forty-two-year-old father in Orlando, Florida, who helps people out of tax messes, also likes to wager on elections.

— Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of mess

Noun

The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ground all flights nationwide for several hours Friday threw the sports world into chaos, leaving NBA, NHL and college teams scrambling to reach their destinations in time for games this weekend.

— Dave Skretta, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2026
Adjacent to the luggage chaos sat Megan Hall, a mom of six young boys who was traveling to Wisconsin with her family.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 Nov. 2026

Definition of chaos

Noun

Adding to the confusion, a young female pilot has since been reported to have perished in the crash.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2026
Mantovani, a Miami Beach resident who immigrated to the United States from Argentina as a child, said confusion about the electoral system and doubts about the impact of a single vote kept him from participating in previous elections.

— Sabrina Lozano, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of confusion

Noun

Clearly something has gotten under our collective skin, as ads for prescription remedies for dermatological disorders have colonized sports broadcasts like a breakout of hives.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Nov. 2026
When Tallinn cracks down on the disorder with law enforcement, the Kremlin would say its obligation to protect ethnic Russians in Narva justifies a limited land attack on the city and its nearby areas.

— Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of disorder

Noun

The town is home to the world's largest snake pits, where tens of thousands of non-venomous red-sided garter snakes emerge each spring to wriggle over one another.

— Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
By mimicking the biological blueprint of snake pit organs and combining it with semiconductor manufacturing, the researchers have opened a path toward truly accessible thermal vision.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025

Definition of snake pit

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