untidyadjective
uk/ʌnˈtaɪ.di/us/ʌnˈtaɪ.di/mainly UKB1 not tidy:
an untidy room
She's really untidy at home.
More examples
- Your handwriting is so untidy I can't read it.
- I can put up with the house being untidy, but I hate it if it's not clean.
- Her desk was so untidy that she spent the whole day trying to establish some sort of order.
- Tom always leaves his clothes in an untidy heap on the bedroom floor.
- Mike is really untidy - you should see the state of his flat!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dirty & untidy
- -stained
- all over the place idiom
- besmeared
- bespattered
- bloodstained
- cat
- inky
- look like something the cat brought/dragged in idiom
- manky
- messy
- mucky
- ragged
- sordid
- squalid
- streaky
- tangle
- tarnish
- tousled
- unclean
- unkempt
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untidily
adverb uk/ʌnˈtaɪ.dəl.i/us/ʌnˈtaɪ.dəl.i/
untidiness
noun [ U ] uk/ʌnˈtaɪ.di.nəs/us/ʌnˈtaɪ.di.nəs/