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mussed

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of mussed

lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

a mussed look that was a change from his usual meticulous grooming

Synonyms of mussed

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

Words Related to mussed

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 mussed

at sixes and sevens, out of joint

Near Antonyms of mussed

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 mussed

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

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