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topsy-turvy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of topsy-turvy

lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

the office is still topsy-turvy even though we moved in months ago

Synonyms of topsy-turvy

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

Words Related to topsy-turvy

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 topsy-turvy

at sixes and sevens, out of joint

Near Antonyms of topsy-turvy

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 topsy-turvy

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

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