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Meaning mess meaning

What does mess mean?
Definitions in simple English

mess Noun

— A mess is a dirty or untidy place or situation. Your room is such a mess! You're not leaving the house until you clean it up! — A mess is a number of people who eat together.

mess Verb

— If you mess, you take meals with a mess. — If you mess, you eat with others.

mess

— noun (= mussiness) a state of confusion and disorderliness the house was a mess she smoothed the mussiness of the bed — noun soft semiliquid food a mess of porridge — noun a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel — noun a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax — noun (= fix, muddle) informal terms for a difficult situation he got into a terrible fix he made a muddle of his marriage — verb (= mess up) make a mess of or create disorder in He messed up his room — verb eat in a mess hall — noun (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, wad) (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent a batch of letters a deal of trouble a lot of money he made a mint on the stock market see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos it must have cost plenty a slew of journalists a wad of money

Synonyms mess synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mess?

mess English » English

disorder muddle confusion jumble chaos disarray muss tangle turmoil junk shambles mush gruel clutter raft mix-up messiness lot wad stack sight pot pile pickle mussiness muck mountain mix up mess up mess hall mass heap hatful great deal good deal fix filth farrago disorganization dishevel deal bedlam batch wardroom untidiness tidy sum thicket spate slew shemozzle

Topics mess topics

What do people use mess to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Untidy
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Problem
Physical actions Arrange

Mix
Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Mistake
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil
Work and occupation Work Method

Work poorly
Physical actions Arrange Tie

Tangle
Physical actions Arrange Organize

Disorganized
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage

Conjugation mess conjugation

How do you conjugate mess?

mess · verb

Examples mess examples

How do I use mess in a sentence?

Simple sentences

My room is a mess.
What a mess!
We wouldn't be in this mess if you had helped us.
Tom's kitchen is in a mess.
You had better not mess with Tom.
Mary asked Tom to clean the mess.
How did we get ourselves into this mess?
It's a complete mess, and it's getting on my nerves.
The principal severely reproved the students whenever they made a mess in the hallway.
His room's a mess.
Don't mess around!
Don't mess everything up!
I really have a great mess.
Tom is in the mess hall.
Don't mess with Tom.
Who's going to clear up all this mess?
Who's responsible for this mess in the kitchen?
The situation in Kyrgyzstan is a real mess.
We wouldn't be in this mess if you'd just done what I told you.
You made this mess, so clean it up.
I think it's time for me to walk away from this mess.
Who's taking responsibility for this mess?
One morning, when Victor woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a big mess of spaghetti.

Movie subtitles

Oh, what a mess.
How dare they mess with my Reapers!
I will clean up the mess after that.
I've always been this neurotic mess.
I was thinking that we could use your role as bridesmaid to really mess her up.
My friends and I are here to mess up our lives so you don't have to.
Sorry about all the mess.
You're a mess.
This place is a mess.
It's such a mess, Valerie.
I heard Mr. Wyatt's building a new mess hall to replace the tent.
Davis will be here in half an hour to clean up the mess.
I didn't give 30 years of my life to this country to see it given to the Arabs who'll mess it up.
Well, sure, nothing would beat ending this mess in a peaceful manner, but to be completely honest, I doubt they'll talk to us.
Don't mess with her, Chapo.
Another nice mess you've gotten me into.
You got me into this mess. You've got to get me out of it.
Well, a nice mess you made of things.
If you get run over, who'll clean up the mess?
You've got yourself in a fine mess!
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.
Well, do your conferring down at the mess hall.
We are not going to the mess hall.
Why did you fire like that in the mess hall?
It was the filing of the signal shots in the mess hall that saved us from a disaster of cataclysmic dimensions.
You wouldn't know news if you fell into a mess of it.
Scott can respect their situation, and knows that, you know, the offer at hand of them becoming a werewolf sounds like a really cool thing, but knows that it just is not. It'll mess up their life.
And I picked you up after you got kicked out of the taxi for making a mess.
I'M GONNA HAVE TO CLEAR IT UP. THEN IT'S GONNA BECOME A MESS. YOU CAN ASK MARTIN HERE.
And besides, it's a mess.
We'll end up by being a mess of chops for those cannibals!
You make a fine mess of it.
You think he'll last till after mess?
Hey, listen, the Bozo don't live that can mess up my nose.

News and current affairs

Don't mess with the companies, they are told by the United States and Europe.
But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright dictatorship and chaos.
It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin - and created the ongoing mess.
Governments without adequate capacity to exercise leadership over their private sectors are likely to mess things up rather than improve allocation of resources.
Likewise, for all the complaints about the United Nations, the US and others turned to UN peacekeepers to sort out the mess after the Lebanon War last summer.
Since then, it has continued to insist that its arguments for invading Iraq are beyond criticism, while making a mess of the postwar administration by refusing to share authority.
MEXICO CITY - For the next American president, fixing the international mess inherited from the Bush administration will be no simple task.
By contrast, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's approach is another example of the kind of shell games that got America into its mess.
Indeed, it is virtually impossible to resolve the current mess without some kind of compass pointing to where the future system lies.
While it has not produced clean and efficient government, there seems to be considerable comfort in the popular belief that, by working together, Pakistanis will find a way out of the mess in which the country finds itself.
But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess.
The most central banks can do is to clean up the mess.
But the British economy is in a precarious state, and public services remain a mess.
Socialism became a mess as great expectations of a workers' paradise were bogged down in bureaucracy.
The man, still refusing to step out, said he was a Harvard professor, showed his ID, and warned the cop not to mess with him.
BERKELEY - Getting out of our current financial mess requires understanding how we got into it in the first place.
This caused a credit crunch and prolonged deflation in the late 1990's, as the central government tried to clean up the mess.
NEW YORK - It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the United States' financial system - indeed, global finance - is in a mess.
That is why he warned the cop, Sgt. James Crowley, a veteran of the Cambridge police force, not to mess with him.
Even the Bank of England has asked whether, given the cost of mopping up the mess caused by the latest crisis, it is worth playing host to a global financial market.
Perhaps worse still, the profession has failed to provide helpful guidance in steering the world economy out of its current mess.
In Europe, it is not just Greece that is in a mess.

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