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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISORDERED, pp. Put out of order; derranged; disturbed; discomposed; confused; sick; indisposed.
DISORDERED, a. Disorderly; irregular; vicious; loose; unrestrained in behavior.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset]
2: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]
3: not arranged in order [syn: disordered, unordered] [ant: ordered]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1505 1. obsolete a. morally reprehensible b. unruly 2. a. marked by disorder <a disordered room> b. not functioning in a normal orderly healthy way <a disordered mind> • disorderedly adverb • disorderedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disorder Dis*or"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disordered; p. pr. & vb. n. Disordering.] 1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse. Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. --Burke. The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach. A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. --Macaulay. 3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] --Dryden. Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disordered Dis*or"dered, a. 1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. [Obs.] --Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as disordered, you mean it is untidy and is not neatly arranged. ...a disordered heap of mossy branches. = messy ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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