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untidy

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un·ti·dy  (n-td)
adj. un·ti·di·er, un·ti·di·est
1. Not neat and tidy; sloppy.
2. Disorderly and unorganized: untidy financial affairs.

un·tidi·ly adv.
un·tidi·ness n.

untidy [ʌnˈtaɪdɪ]
adj -dier, -diest
not neat; slovenly
vb -dies, -dying, -died
(tr) to make untidy
untidily  adv
untidiness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.untidy - not neat and tidyuntidy - not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"
dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
unfastidious - marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her dress"
ungroomed - not neat and smart in appearance; "he was wrinkled and ungroomed, with a two-day beard"; "ungroomed hair"
tidy - marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"

untidy
adjective
1. messy, disordered, chaotic, littered, muddled, cluttered, jumbled, rumpled, shambolic, bedraggled, unkempt, topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy (informal), mussy (U.S. informal), muddly, disarrayed Clothes were thrown in the luggage in an untidy heap.
messy neat, tidy, orderly, spruce, well-kept, presentable, ship-shape
2. unkempt, dishevelled, tousled, disordered, messy, ruffled, scruffy, rumpled, bedraggled, ratty (informal), straggly, windblown, disarranged, mussed up (informal) a thin man with untidy hair
3. sloppy, messy (informal), slovenly, slipshod, slatternly I'm untidy in most ways.
sloppy systematic, methodical
Translations
untidy [ʌnˈtaɪdɪ] ADJ (untidier (compar) (untidiest (superl)))
1. (lit) [room, desk, heap, person] → desordenado; [garden] → descuidado; [appearance] → desaliñado, descuidado; [clothes] → desarreglado; [hair] → despeinado; [work, writing] → poco metódico, descuidado
2. (fig) the film has an untidy endingla película tiene un final poco coherente
an untidy minduna mente poco metódica

untidy [ʌnˈtaɪdi] adj
[room] → en désordre; [work] → peu soigné(e); [appearance] → négligé(e); [heap, pile] → désordonné(e); [hair] → mal peigné(e); [desk] → en désordre, désordonné(e); [handwriting] → peu soigné(e)
My bedroom's always untidy → Ma chambre est toujours en désordre.
[person] (in habits)désordonné(e)
He's a very untidy person → Il est très désordonné.

untidy
adj (+er)unordentlich; to lie in an untidy heap or pileunordentlich übereinanderliegen

untidy [ʌnˈtaɪdɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (person, room, writing) → disordinato/a

untidy
adj untidy [anˈtaidi]
disordered; in a mess His room is always very untidy; an untidy person. deurmekaar, slordig عَديم التَّرْتيب، غَيْر مُرَتَّب разхвърлян neupravený rodet; sjusket unordentlich ακατάστατος desordenado, caótico korratu, lohakas نامرتب epäsiisti en désordre; négligé לא מְסוּדָר बेतरतीब, मैलाकुचैला, गन्दा neuredan rendetlen ósnyrtilegur, sóðalegur disordinato 乱雑な 단정치 못한 netvarkingas nekārtīgs; netīrīgs tdk kemas wanordelijk rotet, ustelt, sjusket zaniedbany desalinhado dezordonat; neglijent неприбранный; неопрятный neupravený, neporiadny neurejen neuredan ostädad, ovårdad ไม่เป็นระเบียบ dağınık, düzensiz 紊亂的 неохайний, неакуратний ناشائستہ không gọn gàng, lôi thôi

untidy غير مُرتب nepořádný rodet unordentlich ατημέλητος desordenado epäsiisti désordonné neuredan disordinato だらしのない 단정치 못한 slordig uryddig nieporządny desarrumado неаккуратный ovårdad ไม่เป็นระเบียบเรียบร้อย dağınık không gọn gàng 不整洁的


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His sister used to grumble about all these animals and said they made the house untidy.
Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.
THE cabin in which I found myself was small and rather untidy.
 
 
 
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