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Thesaurus| Verb | 1. |  mess around - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker, monkey, putterpuddle - mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint"work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor" |
messnoun1. A group of things gathered haphazardly:agglomeration, bank, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mound, mountain, pile, shock, stack, tumble.2. A lack of order or regular arrangement:chaos, clutter, confusedness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, jumble, mix-up, muddle, muss, scramble, topsy-turviness, tumble.Slang: snafu.3. A ruinous state of disorder:botch, foul-up, muddle, shambles.Informal: hash.Slang: screwup, snafu.4. An unsightly object:monstrosity, ugliness.Informal: fright, sight, ugly.5. An individual quantity of food:helping, portion, serving.verb1. To handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively:fiddle, fool, meddle, tamper, tinker.Informal: monkey.2. To put (the hair or clothes) into a state of disarray.Also used with up:disarrange, dishevel, disorder, muss (up), rumple, tousle.phrasal verb
mess around1. Informal. To waste time by engaging in aimless activity:doodle, fool, putter.Informal: fool around.2. Informal. To be nervously or uselessly active:bustle, fuss, putter.3. Informal. To be sexually unfaithful to another:philander, womanize.Informal: cheat, fool around, play around.phrasal verb
mess up1. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess:ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil.Informal: bollix up, muck up.Slang: blow, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu.Idiom: make a muck of.2. To put into total disorder:ball up, confuse, disorder, jumble, muddle, scramble, snarl.Slang: snafu.Idiom: play havoc with.3. To put out of proper order:derange, disarrange, disarray, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, jumble, mix up, muddle, tumble, unsettle, upset.4. Slang. To be rough or brutal with:knock about (or around), manhandle, rough (up), slap around.Translationsmess aroundenUS
mess around1. To tinker or fiddle with something. Hey, don't mess around with the thermostat—it needs to stay at 68 degrees. Grandpa's still messing around with that old radio, but I doubt he'll get it to work again.2. To test or use something in order to learn more about it. I'm messing around with a different platform for my blog, and I can't decide if I like it or not.3. To engage in aimless recreation or frivolous time-wasting; to fool around. Quit messing around and work on your book report already, Scotty!4. To tease or play a prank on one, often by trying to get them to believe something that is not true. Come on, stop messing around. There's no such thing as ghosts.5. To joke about something. Often used in the negative to indicate absolute seriousness. Oh, come on, Tina, we're just messing around. We didn't mean it. You guys, Mom is not messing around. She said she would ground us for a month if she caught us again.6. To engage in casual sex acts with someone. Betsy and I are just messing around, which is great because I don't want a serious relationship anyway.See also: around, messmess around (with something) and mess about (with something); monkey around (with something) 1. to play with or fiddle with something idly and with no good purpose. Don't mess around with the ashtray. You'll break it if you don't stop messing about with it. 2. to experiment with something; to use and learn about something. We had been messing about with some new video techniques when we made our discovery. The people in this lab are messing around with all kinds of polymers.See also: around, messmess around and mess about 1. to waste time; to do something ineffectually. Stop messing around and get busy. I wish you wouldn't mess about so much. You waste a lot of time that way. 2. to play [with someone] sexually. Those two have been messing around. Pete was messing around with Maria during the summer.See also: around, messmess aroundv.1. Slang To waste time: Stop messing around and finish your chores!2. Slang mess around with To manipulate or work with something without a clear sense of method: I messed around with the TV controls, but the picture still looks too green.3. Vulgar Slang To engage in casual, often promiscuous sexual activity.See also: around, messmess around verbSee mess around with someoneSee also: around, messmess around mess about verbSee mess around with something mess about with somethingSee also: around, messMedicalSeeMESSmess aroundenUS
Synonyms for mess aroundverb do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idlySynonyms- monkey around
- muck about
- muck around
- potter
- tinker
- monkey
- putter
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