mess

1 of 2

noun

ˈmes

: a quantity of food:

archaic : food set on a table at one time

: a prepared dish of soft food

also : a mixture of ingredients cooked or eaten together

: enough food of a specified kind for a dish or a meal

picked a mess of peas for dinner

: a group of persons who regularly take their meals together

every officer with a unit … is obliged to belong to a mess

S. G. Maurice

also : a meal so taken

: a place where meals are regularly served to a group : mess hall

The soldiers marched to the mess for breakfast.

: a disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant state or condition

your room is in a mess

: one that is disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant usually because of blundering, laxity, or misconduct

[the movie] is a mess, as sloppy in concept as it is in execution

Judith Crist

: a large quantity or number

They're in a mess of trouble.

mess

2 of 2

verb

messed; messing; messes

transitive verb

: to provide with meals at a mess

: to make dirty or untidy : disarrange

—often used with up

don't mess up your room

: to mix up : bungle

—often used with up

really messed up my life

: to interfere with

—often used with up

magnetic storms that mess up communications — Time

: to rough up : manhandle

—often used with up

mess him up good so he won't cheat us again

intransitive verb

: to take meals with a mess

: to make a mess

: putter, trifle

children like to mess around with paints

: to handle or play with something especially carelessly

don't mess with my camera

—often used with around

: to take an active interest in something or someone

messing around with new video techniques

also : interfere, meddle

messing in other people's affairs

you'd better not mess with me

: to become confused or make an error

—usually used with up

Example Sentences

Noun He was a mess after gardening all day. My hair is a mess. Well, that's another fine mess you've gotten me into! How do we get ourselves into these messes? The school system is a mess. Things were a real mess for a while after she retired. My life is a complete mess. She was a real mess for a while after her divorce. He was a mess during his daughter's wedding ceremony. Verb please don't mess with me while I'm trying to concentrate See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Counseling produced a whole mess of ghosts and goblins from her youth, and then finally came the big one.

Annie Lane, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022 Using the wrong one can leave you with a splotchy mess on your hands and potentially ruin items.

Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2022 Make mac and cheese with less mess, thanks to help from a muffin tin.

Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2022 Instead of using soil, the six-pod Harvest garden supplies a nutrient-rich solution directly to the plant’s roots, which will save you from the hassle and mess of growing indoors with soil.

Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 8 Sep. 2022 Yannick Ngakoue, DeForest Buckner, Kwity Paye and Dayo Odeyingbo beat up a mess of a Raiders offensive line to make Chris Ballard one happy man after the win.

Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2022 Craig Conover makes a small but expensive mess in the upcoming episode of Southern Charm.

Tommy Mcardle, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022 This compact hydroponic garden (which comes with six herb seed packets) supplies a nutrient-rich solution directly to a plant’s roots, which will save your recipient from the hassle and mess of growing indoors with soil.

Corinne Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 7 Sep. 2022 And yet, despite the line’s hot-mess potential, there are reasons to believe this team can survive and thrive in the process.

Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2022

Verb

Locker set out to create the House of Paragon as White had imagined, a place where everyone is supportive, has a place to grow and is not afraid to mess up, Locker said.

Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022 And, of course, just what did Doctor Strange do now to mess everything up so bad?

Graeme Mcmillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2022 There’s always the question of whether trade rumors will mess up team chemistry.

Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022 This way, no one else could connect and mess with things.

Wired, 13 Aug. 2022 Staying focused and making sure not to mess up who breaks which pane could make the difference between winning and losing here.

Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 July 2022 When spies mess up in the British intelligence services, they get sent to Slough House, the setting of this misanthropic drama starring Gary Oldman.

Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 Google could make using these tools much clearer, but even still only a fraction of its users will ever mess with its default settings.

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 Ostensibly a game for organization freaks, A Little to the Left asks players to tidy up by arranging books, game cartridges, spoons, lampshades, and more into nice, neat arrangements, all while a mischievous cat tries to mess things up again.

Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 June 2022 See More

Kids Definition

mess 1 of 2

noun

ˈmes

: a dirty or untidy state

They left things in a mess.

: something in a dirty or untidy state

Your hair is a mess.

: a difficult situation

How do you get into these messes?

: a group of people (as military personnel) who regularly eat together

: a place (as in the military) where meals are served

mess

2 of 2

verb

messed; messing

: to make dirty or untidy

They messed the place up.

: to make mistakes in or mix up

She messed up the speech.

: to become confused or make an error

I messed up the first time.

: to use or do in an aimless way

I messed around on the computer all afternoon.

: to handle in a careless way

Stop messing with my camera.

: to deal with in a way that may cause anger or trouble

Don't mess with them.

mess 1 of 2

noun

as in havoc

a state in which everything is out of order the bachelor party had left the house in a total mess

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

havoc
jumble
hell
chaos
confusion
disarray
messiness
tangle
heck
disorganization
disorder
shambles
muddle
disarrangement
clutter
muss
disorderliness
riot
tumble
snake pit
dishevelment
welter
anarchy
maze
free-for-all
misorder
labyrinth
chance-medley
mare's nest
snarl
disorderedness
misrule
mishmash
maelstrom
shuffle
hodgepodge
morass
lawlessness
web
storm
litter
knot
bollix
motley
medley
miscellany

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

order
system
plan
orderliness
pattern
method

as in meal

food eaten or prepared for eating at one time a mess of oatmeal

Synonyms & Similar Words

meal
menu
feed
table
dinner
chow
supper
repast
feast
lunch
buffet
banquet
board
snack
refection
smorgasbord
breakfast
tea
taste
serving
bite
fry
collation
picnic
refreshments
gulp
bake
luncheon
roast
potluck
spread
cookout
morsel
clambake
barbecue
fry-up
regale
barbeque
luau

as in sight

something unpleasant to look at the car was a mess after the accident

Synonyms & Similar Words

sight
fright
eyesore
horror
stain
smudge
hideosity
monstrosity
smear
spot
blot
eye-catcher

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

vision

as in deal

a considerable amount an unexpected Super Bowl loss that unleashed a whole mess of finger-pointing and second-guessing

Synonyms & Similar Words

deal
loads
pile
plenty
ton
bunch
lot
chunk
slew
dozen
hundred
much
bundle
stack
wealth
quantity
raft
heap
abundance
good deal
myriad
gobs
boatload
pack
bucket
yard
pot
multiplicity
mountain
profusion
plateful
potful
sight
wad
volume
truckload
mass
oodles
basketful
scads
barrel
store
fistful
shipload
quite a bit
plague
carload
sheaf
flood
lashins
peck
passel
reams
plentitude
plenitude
embarrassment
bushel
spate
lashings
surplus
all kinds (of)
rash
excess
overkill
epidemic
thousands
score
overflow
redundancy
overabundance
swarm
multitude
bonanza
sea
deluge
overmuch
plethora
oversupply
superabundance
army
superfluity
cram
crowd
throng
crush
flock
million
host
horde
surfeit
overage
herd
bevy
press
mob
legion
drove
trillion
zillion
gazillion
jillion
kazillion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

bit
strain
touch
taste
spot
scrap
lick
streak
shadow
mouthful
suspicion
speck
whit
hint
trace
pinch
fragment
sprinkling
mite
handful
shade
pittance
shred
peanuts
grain
particle
crumb
dab
tad
scruple
glimmer
little
molecule
sprinkle
nip
drop
dot
atom
ounce
ace
ray
modicum
dram
granule
dash
mote
piece
lack
jot
section
tittle
iota
smattering
portion
shortage
absence
smidgen
smidgeon
smidge
shot
want
scintilla
smidgin
fleck
poverty
flyspeck
driblet
deficit
morsel
scarcity
smatter
deficiency
inadequacy
paucity
nubbin
famine
insufficiency
dearth
scantness
meagerness
undersupply
skimpiness
scantiness
scarceness

mess

2 of 2

verb

as in to interfere

to interest oneself in what is not one's concern please don't mess with me while I'm trying to concentrate

Synonyms & Similar Words

interfere
snoop
poke
meddle
butt in
intervene
intrude
intermeddle
nose
pry
interlope
obtrude
fool
muck (about or around)
fiddle
intercede
trespass
invade
monkey
encroach
tamper
play
infringe
interpose
barge (in)
chisel (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

avoid
ignore
disregard
neglect
overlook
shun
eschew

单词	mess
释义	mess 1 of 2 noun ˈmes 1 : a quantity of food: a archaic : food set on a table at one time b : a prepared dish of soft food also : a mixture of ingredients cooked or eaten together c : enough food of a specified kind for a dish or a meal picked a mess of peas for dinner 2 a : a group of persons who regularly take their meals together every officer with a unit … is obliged to belong to a mess S. G. Maurice also : a meal so taken b : a place where meals are regularly served to a group : mess hall The soldiers marched to the mess for breakfast. 3 a : a disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant state or condition your room is in a mess b : one that is disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant usually because of blundering, laxity, or misconduct [the movie] is a mess, as sloppy in concept as it is in execution Judith Crist 4 : a large quantity or number They're in a mess of trouble. mess 2 of 2 verb messed; messing; messes transitive verb 1 : to provide with meals at a mess 2 a : to make dirty or untidy : disarrange —often used with up don't mess up your room b : to mix up : bungle —often used with up really messed up my life 3 : to interfere with —often used with up magnetic storms that mess up communications — Time 4 : to rough up : manhandle —often used with up mess him up good so he won't cheat us again intransitive verb 1 : to take meals with a mess 2 : to make a mess 3 a : putter, trifle children like to mess around with paints b : to handle or play with something especially carelessly don't mess with my camera —often used with around c : to take an active interest in something or someone messing around with new video techniques also : interfere, meddle messing in other people's affairs you'd better not mess with me 4 : to become confused or make an error —usually used with up Synonyms Noun chance-medley chaos confusion disarrangement disarray dishevelment disorder disorderedness disorderliness disorganization free-for-all havoc heck hell jumble mare's nest messiness misorder muddle muss shambles snake pit tumble welter Verb butt in interfere interlope intermeddle intrude meddle muck (about or around) nose obtrude poke pry snoop See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun He was a mess after gardening all day. My hair is a mess. Well, that's another fine mess you've gotten me into! How do we get ourselves into these messes? The school system is a mess. Things were a real mess for a while after she retired. My life is a complete mess. She was a real mess for a while after her divorce. He was a mess during his daughter's wedding ceremony. Verb please don't mess with me while I'm trying to concentrate See More Recent Examples on the Web Noun Counseling produced a whole mess of ghosts and goblins from her youth, and then finally came the big one. Annie Lane, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022 Using the wrong one can leave you with a splotchy mess on your hands and potentially ruin items. Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2022 Make mac and cheese with less mess, thanks to help from a muffin tin. Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2022 Instead of using soil, the six-pod Harvest garden supplies a nutrient-rich solution directly to the plant’s roots, which will save you from the hassle and mess of growing indoors with soil. Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 8 Sep. 2022 Yannick Ngakoue, DeForest Buckner, Kwity Paye and Dayo Odeyingbo beat up a mess of a Raiders offensive line to make Chris Ballard one happy man after the win. Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2022 Craig Conover makes a small but expensive mess in the upcoming episode of Southern Charm. Tommy Mcardle, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022 This compact hydroponic garden (which comes with six herb seed packets) supplies a nutrient-rich solution directly to a plant’s roots, which will save your recipient from the hassle and mess of growing indoors with soil. Corinne Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 7 Sep. 2022 And yet, despite the line’s hot-mess potential, there are reasons to believe this team can survive and thrive in the process. Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2022 Verb Locker set out to create the House of Paragon as White had imagined, a place where everyone is supportive, has a place to grow and is not afraid to mess up, Locker said. Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022 And, of course, just what did Doctor Strange do now to mess everything up so bad? Graeme Mcmillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2022 There’s always the question of whether trade rumors will mess up team chemistry. Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022 This way, no one else could connect and mess with things. Wired, 13 Aug. 2022 Staying focused and making sure not to mess up who breaks which pane could make the difference between winning and losing here. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 July 2022 When spies mess up in the British intelligence services, they get sent to Slough House, the setting of this misanthropic drama starring Gary Oldman. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 Google could make using these tools much clearer, but even still only a fraction of its users will ever mess with its default settings. Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 Ostensibly a game for organization freaks, A Little to the Left asks players to tidy up by arranging books, game cartridges, spoons, lampshades, and more into nice, neat arrangements, all while a mischievous cat tries to mess things up again. Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 June 2022 See More Word History Etymology Noun and Verb Middle English mes, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin missus course at a meal, from missus, past participle of mittere to put, from Latin, to send — more at smite First Known Use Noun 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Verb 14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1 Phrases Containing mess make a mess of mess about with (something) hot mess mess around mess hall mess around with (something) mess jacket mess over mess kit mess with someone's mind/head mess with mess (something or someone) up mess about a mess of pottage mess up See More make a mess of mess about with (something) hot mess mess around mess hall mess around with (something) mess jacket mess over mess kit mess with someone's mind/head mess with mess (something or someone) up mess about a mess of pottage mess up See More Kids Definition mess 1 of 2 noun ˈmes 1 : a dirty or untidy state They left things in a mess. 2 : something in a dirty or untidy state Your hair is a mess. 3 : a difficult situation How do you get into these messes? 4 : a group of people (as military personnel) who regularly eat together 5 : a place (as in the military) where meals are served mess 2 of 2 verb messed; messing 1 : to make dirty or untidy They messed the place up. 2 : to make mistakes in or mix up She messed up the speech. 3 : to become confused or make an error I messed up the first time. 4 : to use or do in an aimless way I messed around on the computer all afternoon. 5 : to handle in a careless way Stop messing with my camera. 6 : to deal with in a way that may cause anger or trouble Don't mess with them. mess 1 of 2 noun 1 as in havoc a state in which everything is out of order the bachelor party had left the house in a total mess Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance havoc jumble hell chaos confusion disarray messiness tangle heck disorganization disorder shambles muddle disarrangement clutter muss disorderliness riot tumble snake pit dishevelment welter anarchy maze free-for-all misorder labyrinth chance-medley mare's nest snarl disorderedness misrule mishmash maelstrom shuffle hodgepodge morass lawlessness web storm litter knot bollix motley medley miscellany Antonyms & Near Antonyms order system plan orderliness pattern method 2 as in meal food eaten or prepared for eating at one time a mess of oatmeal Synonyms & Similar Words meal menu feed table dinner chow supper repast feast lunch buffet banquet board snack refection smorgasbord breakfast tea taste serving bite fry collation picnic refreshments gulp bake luncheon roast potluck spread cookout morsel clambake barbecue fry-up regale barbeque luau 3 as in sight something unpleasant to look at the car was a mess after the accident Synonyms & Similar Words sight fright eyesore horror stain smudge hideosity monstrosity smear spot blot eye-catcher Antonyms & Near Antonyms vision 4 as in deal a considerable amount an unexpected Super Bowl loss that unleashed a whole mess of finger-pointing and second-guessing Synonyms & Similar Words deal loads pile plenty ton bunch lot chunk slew dozen hundred much bundle stack wealth quantity raft heap abundance good deal myriad gobs boatload pack bucket yard pot multiplicity mountain profusion plateful potful sight wad volume truckload mass oodles basketful scads barrel store fistful shipload quite a bit plague carload sheaf flood lashins peck passel reams plentitude plenitude embarrassment bushel spate lashings surplus all kinds (of) rash excess overkill epidemic thousands score overflow redundancy overabundance swarm multitude bonanza sea deluge overmuch plethora oversupply superabundance army superfluity cram crowd throng crush flock million host horde surfeit overage herd bevy press mob legion drove trillion zillion gazillion jillion kazillion Antonyms & Near Antonyms bit strain touch taste spot scrap lick streak shadow mouthful suspicion speck whit hint trace pinch fragment sprinkling mite handful shade pittance shred peanuts grain particle crumb dab tad scruple glimmer little molecule sprinkle nip drop dot atom ounce ace ray modicum dram granule dash mote piece lack jot section tittle iota smattering portion shortage absence smidgen smidgeon smidge shot want scintilla smidgin fleck poverty flyspeck driblet deficit morsel scarcity smatter deficiency inadequacy paucity nubbin famine insufficiency dearth scantness meagerness undersupply skimpiness scantiness scarceness See More mess 2 of 2 verb as in to interfere to interest oneself in what is not one's concern please don't mess with me while I'm trying to concentrate Synonyms & Similar Words interfere snoop poke meddle butt in intervene intrude intermeddle nose pry interlope obtrude fool muck (about or around) fiddle intercede trespass invade monkey encroach tamper play infringe interpose barge (in) chisel (in) Antonyms & Near Antonyms avoid ignore disregard neglect overlook shun eschew See More Phrases Containing mess mess (up) mess (with) mess around mess over mess (up) mess (with) mess around mess over
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mess

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