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muddled

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of muddled

lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

a muddled arrangement of trophies in the display case

Synonyms of muddled

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

Words Related to muddled

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

adulterated, contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted

knotted, snarled, tangled

seedy, shabby, sleazy, sordid

neglected, neglectful, negligent

Phrases Synonymous with muddled

at sixes and sevens, out of joint

Near Antonyms of muddled

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 muddled

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

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