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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness]
2: the trait of being untidy and messy [syn: untidiness, messiness] [ant: neatness, tidiness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see messy

Moby Thesaurus

amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, bad job, blowziness, blurriness, botch, bungling, carelessness, chaos, chintziness, confusion, dinginess, dirtiness, disorder, dowdiness, entropy, formlessness, frowziness, frumpishness, fuzziness, griminess, grubbiness, haphazardness, haziness, immundity, impurity, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, loose ends, looseness, miriness, mistiness, muddiness, negligence, obscurity, orderlessness, sad work, scruffiness, seediness, shabbiness, shapelessness, shoddiness, slapdash, slatternliness, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttishness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, tackiness, tawdriness, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unclearness, unneatness, unpureness, untidiness, vagueness