disorderly
/dɪsˈɔːdəli
/adjective
1Lacking organization; untidy: his life was as disorderly as ever a disorderly pile of books...
- Children with ADHD are hindered if the classroom is noisy, disorderly, or lacking clear consistent regimens and expectations.
- He started digging through a disorderly pile of assorted framed pictures, including several that looked like they had been run over by a truck.
- Refugee flows, by their nature, are chaotic and disorderly.
Synonyms
untidy, disorganized, messy, chaotic, cluttered, littered, jumbled, muddled, confused, unsystematic, irregular;
out of order, out of place, in disarray, in a mess, in a jumble, in a muddle, upside-down, at sixes and sevens, haywire, haphazard
informal all over the place, like a bomb's hit it, higgledy-piggledy
British informal shambolic
1.1Involving or contributing to a breakdown of peaceful and law-abiding behaviour: they had no intention of staging a disorderly protest...
- The Constitution provides for the removal of a deputy in cases of bankruptcy and unruly or disorderly behaviour.
- I will touch on the issue of disorderly and unruly passenger behaviour.
- Ordinary residents should be able to go into the town centre and enjoy a drink or a meal without coming across disorderly behaviour.
Synonyms
unruly, boisterous, rough, rowdy, wild, turbulent, tumultuous;
disruptive, troublesome, antisocial, disobedient, undisciplined, lawless, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, out of hand, out of control;
obstreperous, refractory, rebellious, mutinous, insurrectionary, insurgent, seditious, anarchic, riotous, rioting
Derivatives
disorderliness
/ noun ...- Chaos and disorderliness can be allies in my goals of spending as much time as possible with them.
- However, it would appear this popularity and concentration in confined town centre areas has brought with it an increase in street violence and disorderliness.
- Students returned to campus on the traditional Labor Day move-in, and the normal amount of revelry and disorderliness ensued.