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Definition of mess : 1. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
2. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
3. A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.
4. A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
5. A set of four; - from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
6. Mass; church service.
7. The milk given by a cow at one milking.
8. To make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.
9. To supply with a mess.
10. To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat ( with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

Synonyms:

localization, weed, cakehole, upsurge, grub, jamming, trap, mixture, trade, rush, passel, fixing, hollow, mint, reparation, ken, bundle, disorderedness, hole, draw, plenitude, circumstances, whole slew, multitude, fuddle, kettle of fish, view, green goddess, visual sense, yap, clutch, fate, fortune, bus, bargain, screw up, set, drift, great deal, bollocks up, spate, mayhem, helping, serving, masses, bunch, agglomerate, people, tummy, plug, can, fixture, big bucks, troop, botch up, gob, hill, skunk, gage, chew, mare's nest, grass, chow, tidy sum, quid, chaw, mass, destiny, mending, topsy-turviness, potentiometer, smother, combination, luck, portion, volume, maw, heap, monstrosity, welter, blow, pile, fluff, electronic jamming, meal, shambles, stack, smokestack, potty, agglomeration, bollix, surge, freshet, jackpot, press, pickle, band, mound, megabucks, down, mess-up, kitty, bodge, muck up, galvanic pile, jam, crapper, mickle, visual modality, throne, order, the great unwashed, atomic pile, voltaic pile, muff, plentitude, foul up, stool, ruffle up, hoi polloi, ugliness, survey, bobble, snafu, compound, jalopy, cumulus, crush, bay window, plenteousness, muckle, business deal, stilt, hodgepodge, hatful, piling, toilet, fix, dope, lot, confusedness, circle, bollix up, fold, mount, mishandle, repair, spoil, ball up, corporation, peck, push-down storage, flock, deal, locating, mussiness, push-down list, good deal, plentifulness, mint candy, hand, screwup, sess, cumulation, golf hole, fright, push-down stack, slew, pot, potbelly, mash, blend, fumble, sens, quite a little, raft, batch, bollocks, cud, bumble, bulk, vision, locoweed, beautiful, nap, louse up, mountain, atomic reactor, potful, commode, chain reactor, localisation, mend, flowerpot, wad, ingestion, spile, push-down store, shock, smoke, correct, softwood, bungle, ugly, plenty, caboodle, bank, mess hall, flub, untidiness, big money, sight, whole lot, location

disorganize, convulse, discompose, disarrange, tamper, muddle, scatter, derange, hash, displace, jumble, swirl, whisk, toss, ruffle, dislocate, mislay, confuse, trouble, roil, disturb, roughen, churn, rummage, mix-up, meddle, dishevel, botch, capsize, misplace, confound, agitate, tumble, clutter, upset, scramble, rumple, ripple, ferment, perturb, whip, disorder, tousle, blur, muss

bum, pigpen, slob, pig, boor

disorderliness, disarray, deformity, looseness, disarrangement, frenzy, commotion, formlessness, indistinctness, insanity, indefiniteness, messiness, disorganization, turmoil, entropy, fuzziness, chaos, anarchy, discomposure, lawlessness, laxity, disconnectedness, inexactness, tumult, inchoateness, unevenness, muddlement, obscurity, perturbation, derangement, incoherence, shapelessness, irregularity, inconsistency, anarchism, confusion, disintegration, amorphousness

Usage examples:

• Spirits were not very high at the mess just then. - "The Lamp in the Desert", Ethel M. Dell.
• He took the news back to his mess. - "Love Stories", Mary Roberts Rinehart.
• It'll be almost like waiting in Mess! - "Captain Jim", Mary Grant Bruce.