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disorderly

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of disorderly

1 not restrained by or under the control of legal authority
  • Disorderly mobs roamed the streets after the fall of the city.
Synonyms of disorderly

anarchic (also anarchical), lawbreaking, lawless, unruly
Words Related to disorderly

defiant, insubordinate, mutinous, rebellious, refractory, riotous

undisciplined

criminal, felonious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, unlawful, wrongful

disobedient, froward, intractable, recalcitrant
Near Antonyms of disorderly

lawful, legal, legalized, legitimate

amenable, compliant, docile, obedient, submissive, tractable
Antonyms of disorderly

law-abiding, orderly
2 lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness
  • disorderly piles of clothes on various tables about the room
Synonyms of disorderly

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

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, smudged, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly

dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), shaggy, slatternly, sloven, slovenly
Phrases Synonymous with disorderly

at sixes and sevens, out of joint
Near Antonyms of disorderly

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
Antonyms of disorderly

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

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