mess
Meaning of mess
noun
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder.
He made a mess of it.
- A large quantity or number.
My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
- Excrement.
Parked under a tree, my car was soon covered in birds' mess.
- A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- To interfere.
This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.
- (used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
Stop messing with me!
- Mass; a church service.
- A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
A mess of pottage.
- A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
the wardroom mess
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- To take meals with a mess.
- To belong to a mess.
- To eat (with others).
I mess with the wardroom officers.
- To supply with a mess.
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Hyphenation of mess
mess
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- mess is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
mess synonyms
Meaning messiness:
Meaning fix:
fix, hole, jam, muddle, pickle
Meaning batch:
batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad
Translation of mess
- German: Unordnung, Durcheinander
- Italian: disordine, confusione, montagna, massa, sacco, mucchio
- Spanish: desorden, montón
- French: désordre, tas
- Portuguese: bagunça
Anagrams of mess
Words that rhyme with mess
amess, entremess, pilgrimess, warmmess, kermess, kirmess
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