messy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈmɛsi/

Definition of messy

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (person)In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
    “a messy office”
    “Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.”
    “Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.”
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adj

  1. (person)In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
    “a messy office”
    “Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.”
    “Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.”
  2. Prone to causing mess.
    “He is the messiest person I've ever met.”
  3. Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
    “a messy divorce”
    “Say bonjour to the botched R.S.V.P. The practice of replying to invitations, let alone actually showing up to parties as promised, has become as antiquated as the chimney sweep, and much messier.”
  4. Argumentative, spreading spreading gossip, talking behind someone's back
    “They keep starting fights with Sam, they're so messy.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From mess + -y.

Anagrams of messy

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