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mussy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of mussy

lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

a mussy pile of papers and books

Synonyms of mussy

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

Words Related to mussy

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 mussy

at sixes and sevens, out of joint

Near Antonyms of mussy

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 mussy

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

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