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untidy

(ʌntaɪdi)
1. adjective
If you describe something as untidy, you mean that it is not neat or well arranged.
The place quickly became untidy.
...a thin man with untidy hair.
Clothes were thrown in the luggage in an untidy heap.
Synonyms: messy, disordered, chaotic, littered More Synonyms of untidy
untidily (ʌntaɪdɪli) adverb [usually ADVERB with verb, oft ADVERB adjective]
Her long hair tumbles untidily around her shoulders.
...the desk piled untidily with books and half-finished homework.
untidiness uncountable noun
The dust and untidiness in her room no longer bothered her.
2. adjective
If you describe a person as untidy, you mean that they do not care about whether things are neat and well arranged, for example in their house.
I'm untidy in most ways.
Synonyms: sloppy [informal], messy [informal], slovenly, slipshod More Synonyms of untidy
More Synonyms of untidy

untidy in British English

(ʌnˈtaɪdɪ)
adjectiveWord forms: -dier or -diest
1. 
not neat; slovenly
verbWord forms: -dies, -dying or -died
2. (transitive)
to make untidy
Derived forms
untidily (unˈtidily)
adverb
untidiness (unˈtidiness)
noun

untidy in American English

(ʌnˈtaɪdi)
adjectiveWord forms: unˈtidier or unˈtidiest
not tidy; not neat or in good order; slovenly; messy
Derived forms
untidily (unˈtidily)
adverb
untidiness (unˈtidiness)
noun
Word origin
ME untydi

Examples of 'untidy' in a sentence
untidy

Some people dislike the untidy look this gives them.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Perhaps this means that they look untidy on a map and that planners get lost in them.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It looks untidy and disrupts the game.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
When did you last see a hole in a house with some untidy straw sticking out of it?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We grew up in an untidy house, with little thought for health and safety.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It makes you look untidy.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I went to the untidy heap of back issues that lay in the corner of the sports department and began flicking through them.
Duncan Hamilton Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough (2007)
THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens.
The Sun (2012)
They worried about how these plants would cope in our wet winters, and were convinced that the grasses would all collapse into untidy heaps.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
If she tells me my room is untidy I go straight in there and sort it out right away.
The Sun (2011)
Good grief, it makes Switzerland look untidy.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
So my house is untidy, just like my mum's used to be.
The Sun (2008)
This means untidy hair, unflattering clothes and no make-up.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
She had daily battles with her mother because she made the whole house untidy and particularly her bedroom, which her mother said was a disgrace.
Irwin, Ann Stammering in Young Children (1988)
LEAVING a hotel room untidy.
The Sun (2012)
Some people have untidy gardens, some have a swing seat by the river, some have a garden full of canoes.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
There may be implicit confirmation here that the best lawyers rarely have tidy rooms (a claim made mainly by lawyers with untidy rooms ).
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A STUDENT took a week to realise she had been burgled because her room was so untidy.
The Sun (2014)

In other languages
untidy

British English: untidy /ʌnˈtaɪdɪ/ ADJECTIVE
Something that is untidy is messy, and not neatly arranged.
She threw her clothes into an untidy heap.
  • American English: untidy
  • Arabic: غَيْرُ مُرَتَّب
  • Brazilian Portuguese: desarrumado
  • Chinese: 不整洁的
  • Croatian: neuredan
  • Czech: nepořádný
  • Danish: rodet
  • Dutch: slordig
  • European Spanish: desordenado
  • Finnish: epäsiisti
  • French: désordonné
  • German: unordentlich
  • Greek: ατημέλητος
  • Italian: disordinato
  • Japanese: だらしのない
  • Korean: 단정치 못한
  • Norwegian: uryddig
  • Polish: nieporządny
  • European Portuguese: desarrumado
  • Romanian: dezordonat
  • Russian: неаккуратный
  • Latin American Spanish: desordenado
  • Swedish: ovårdad
  • Thai: ไม่เป็นระเบียบเรียบร้อย
  • Turkish: dağınık
  • Ukrainian: неохайний
  • Vietnamese: không gọn gàng

Chinese translation of 'untidy'

untidy

(ʌnˈtaɪdɪ)

adj

  1. [room] 不整洁(潔)的 (bù zhěngjié de)
  2. [person, appearance] 邋遢的 (lātā de)
1 (adjective) 
Definition
not neat
Clothes were thrown in the luggage in an untidy heap.
Synonyms
messy
Mum made me clean up my messy room.
disordered
a disordered heap of mossy branches
chaotic
littered
muddled
a muddled pile of historical manuscripts
cluttered
She dreaded going into that cluttered room.
jumbled
rumpled
shambolic (informal)
a shambolic public relations disaster
bedraggled
unkempt
topsy-turvy
The world has turned topsy-turvy in my lifetime.
higgledy-piggledy (informal)
books stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor
mussy (US, informal)
muddly
disarrayed
Opposites
neat
,
tidy
,
orderly
,
spruce
,
well-kept
,
presentable
,
ship-shape
2 (adjective) 
Definition
not neat
a thin man with untidy hair
Synonyms
unkempt
The child was unkempt and dirty.
dishevelled
She arrived looking flushed and dishevelled.
tousled
a woman with tousled hair, faded jeans and a baggy jacket
disordered
messy
She has very messy hair.
ruffled
scruffy
a young man, pale, scruffy and untidy
rumpled
bedraggled
a bedraggled group of journalists
ratty (informal)
straggly
The yard held a few straggly bushes.
windblown
disarranged
mussed up (informal)
daggy (Australian, New Zealand, informal)
He turned up wearing a daggy tracksuit.
3 (adjective) 
Definition
not neat
I'm untidy in most ways.
Synonyms
sloppy (informal)
I won't accept sloppy work from my students.
messy (informal)
She was a good, if messy, cook.
slovenly
Such slovenly work is simply unacceptable.
slipshod
The hotel had always been run in a slipshod way.
slatternly (old-fashioned)
Opposites
systematic
,
methodical

Additional synonyms

in the sense of bedraggled
Definition
with hair or clothing that is untidy, wet, or dirty
a bedraggled group of journalists
Synonyms
messy,
soiled,
dirty,
disordered,
stained,
dripping,
muddied,
muddy,
drenched,
ruffled,
untidy,
sodden,
sullied,
dishevelled,
rumpled,
unkempt,
tousled,
disarranged,
disarrayed,
daggy (Australian, New Zealand, informal)
in the sense of cluttered
She dreaded going into that cluttered room.
Synonyms
untidy,
confused,
disordered,
littered,
messy,
muddled,
jumbled,
disarrayed
in the sense of daggy
Definition
untidy
He turned up wearing a daggy tracksuit.
Synonyms
untidy,
unkempt,
dishevelled,
tousled,
disordered,
messy,
ruffled,
scruffy,
rumpled,
bedraggled,
ratty (informal),
straggly,
windblown,
disarranged,
mussed up (informal)

Synonyms of 'untidy'

untidy

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of dishevelled
Definition
(of a person's hair, clothes, or general appearance) disordered and untidy
She arrived looking flushed and dishevelled.
Synonyms
untidy,
disordered,
messy,
ruffled,
rumpled,
bedraggled,
unkempt,
tousled,
hanging loose,
blowsy,
uncombed,
disarranged,
disarrayed,
frowzy,
daggy (Australian, New Zealand, informal)
in the sense of disordered
a disordered heap of mossy branches
Synonyms
untidy,
confused,
muddled,
all over the place,
displaced,
out of place,
jumbled,
misplaced,
dislocated,
deranged,
in a mess,
disorganized,
in confusion,
higgledy-piggledy (informal),
disarranged,
disarrayed,
out of kilter,
daggy (Australian, New Zealand, informal)
in the sense of higgledy-piggledy
Definition
in a muddle
books stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor
Synonyms
haphazard,
muddled,
jumbled,
indiscriminate,
topsy-turvy,
helter-skelter,
pell-mell
in the sense of muddled
a muddled pile of historical manuscripts
Synonyms
jumbled,
confused,
disordered,
scrambled,
tangled,
chaotic,
messy,
mixed-up,
disorganized,
higgledy-piggledy (informal),
disarrayed
in the sense of scruffy
Definition
dirty and untidy in appearance
a young man, pale, scruffy and untidy
Synonyms
shabby,
untidy,
ragged,
rundown,
messy,
sloppy (informal),
seedy,
squalid,
tattered,
tatty (British),
unkempt,
disreputable,
scrubby (British, informal),
grungy,
slovenly,
mangy,
sluttish,
slatternly,
ungroomed,
frowzy,
ill-groomed,
draggletailed (archaic),
daggy (Australian, New Zealand, informal)
in the sense of shambolic
Definition
completely disorganized
a shambolic public relations disaster
Synonyms
disorganized,
disordered,
chaotic,
confused,
muddled,
inefficient,
anarchic,
topsy-turvy,
at sixes and sevens,
in total disarray,
unsystematic
in the sense of slatternly
Synonyms
dirty,
sloppy (informal),
slovenly,
untidy,
bedraggled,
unkempt,
unclean,
slipshod,
sluttish,
frowzy,
draggletailed (archaic)
in the sense of slipshod
Definition
(of an action) done in a careless way without attention to detail
The hotel had always been run in a slipshod way.
Synonyms
careless,
sloppy (informal),
loose,
slapdash,
casual,
untidy,
slovenly,
unsystematic
in the sense of slovenly
Definition
negligent and careless
Such slovenly work is simply unacceptable.
Synonyms
careless,
sloppy (informal),
negligent,
slapdash,
loose,
slack,
heedless,
slipshod
in the sense of straggly
The yard held a few straggly bushes.
Synonyms
spread out,
spreading,
rambling,
untidy,
loose,
drifting,
random,
straying,
irregular,
aimless,
disorganized,
straggling

Additional synonyms

in the sense of topsy-turvy
Definition
in a state of confusion
The world has turned topsy-turvy in my lifetime.
Synonyms
confused,
upside-down,
disorderly,
chaotic,
messy,
mixed-up,
jumbled,
inside-out,
untidy,
disorganized,
disarranged
in the sense of tousled
a woman with tousled hair, faded jeans and a baggy jacket
Synonyms
dishevelled,
disordered,
tangled,
ruffled,
messed up,
rumpled,
disarranged,
disarrayed
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