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Definition of disorderly:
- In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.
- Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
- Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.
- Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.
- Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.
Synonyms:
rumbustious, fighting, tumbled, wild, rumpled, pell-mell, recalcitrant, untidy, indocile, vicious, boisterous, chaotic, upside-down, tousled, out of order, untrained, unkempt, cloak-and-dagger, hush-hush, unmanageable, topsy-turvy, clandestine, sloppy, hole-and-corner, organized, fractious, slovenly, moblike, surreptitious, secret, peace, lawbreaking, intractable, order, scrubby, indiscriminate, rowdy, robustious, jumbled, ungovernable, underground, brawling, obstinate, anyhow, disruptive, brutal, barbarous, straggly, mobbish, untoward, rambunctious, murderous, obstreperous, violent, raucous, unsystematic, mussy, resist, disarranged, cockeyed, turbulent, littered, undercover, mob, mussed, uncontrollable, ferocious, hugger mugger, drunk, unruly, helter-skelter, all over the place, refractory, riotous, higgledy-piggledy, thuggish, control, heterogeneous, bloodthirsty, anarchic, neat, rough-and-tumble, messed, unrestrained.
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chaotic (part of speech: adjective)
- shapeless,
- embroiled,
- cluttered,
- lax,
- insane,
- irregular,
- incoherent,
- confused,
- disarrayed,
- tumultuous,
- indefinite,
- out of control,
- formless,
- deformed,
- perturbed,
- unruly,
- deranged,
- undisciplined,
- wild,
- messy,
- frantic,
- loose,
- chaotic,
- tempestuous,
- disconnected,
- discomposed,
- disordered,
- rambunctious,
- inconsistent,
- blurry,
- indistinct,
- muddled,
- obscure,
- lawless,
- jumbled,
- frenzied,
- inchoate,
- fuzzy,
- amorphous,
- disorganized,
- anarchical,
- disheveled,
- inexact,
- uneven,
- anarchistic,
- disintegrated
- scattered (part of speech: adjective)
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chaotically (part of speech: adverb)
- inconsistently,
- insanely,
- chaotically,
- loosely,
- messily,
- irregularly,
- incoherently,
- inexactly,
- shapelessly,
- confusedly,
- indefinitely,
- lawlessly,
- obscurely,
- inchoately,
- laxly,
- unevenly,
- formlessly,
- amorphously,
- indistinctly
Usage examples:
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He never joined them in their disorderly descent upon the scarlet cities of the plain, and most of the time he didn't even seem to watch the telescreen.
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She was accustomed to walking through John Biery's main room to gain the stair that led to her own; on the whole it was not disorderly, or Susannah had but to appear on the threshold to reduce it to order.
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By and by certain persons came who apprehended him and James Bird for being in a disorderly house; and having carried them to the watch house, they were there both charged with robbing and beating, in a most cruel and barbarous manner, a poor old woman near Rag Fair.