Disordered

Definition: Disordered

Disordered

Adjective

1. Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset".

2. Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts".

3. Not arranged in order.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disordered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Disordered

Insanity

Noun: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder.

Crosswords: Disordered

The Disordered Orderly (1927)

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Books

• Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community (Oxford Medical Publications) (reference)

• Disordered and Complex Systems: London, United Kingdom 2000 (Aip Conference Proceedings, 553) (reference)

• Disordered minds; the first century of Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Va., 1766-1866 (reference)

• Disordered Personalities (reference)

• Nanotubes, Fullerenes, Nanostructured and Disordered Carbon: Symposium Held April 17-20, 2001, San Francisco, California, U.S.a (Materials Research s (reference)

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Osmotic stress method is not limited to lamellar structures but can be equivalently used in the case of any ordered or disordered subphase. Credit: NICHD.

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We must not suppose that his reason was disordered.

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Health

The new interest in disordered circadian rhythms as a clinical observation opens up new areas of research. (references)

Although research continues to unravel the mysteries of disordered cell growth, the cause of pituitary tumors remains unknown. (references)

Myoclonic jerks commonly occur in persons with epilepsy, a disorder in which the electrical activity in the brain becomes disordered leading to seizures. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "disordered": be disordered ♦ disordered zone ♦ metastable disordered zone. Additional references.

Ending with "disordered": thought-disordered.

Arabic 

‏فوضوي (anarchic, anarchist, chaotic, confused, disarrayed, lawless, messy, mixed up, skinhead), ‏مضطرب (confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, rough, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, upset), ‏مختلط (coeducation, jumbled, medley, mixed, unsettled), ‏مشوش (become confused, chaotic, confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disorganized, disturbed, disturber, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled up, messy, mixed, muddled, muddy, promiscuous, unsettled). (various references)

Chinese 

溷 (privy), 混乱 (Chaotic, Clamorous, Confusion, Disarray, disorganise, disorganised, Disorganize, Disorganized, Disorganizing, mess, Muddle, Muddled, Muddling, ravel). (various references)

Czech

zpřeházený, zmatený (addle-brained, addle-pated, bemused, bewildered, chaotic, confused, embroiled, in confusion, mazy, mixed, muddy, screwed up, turbid), v nepořádku (out of order, untidy), rozháraný, nezřízený (debauched), nespořádaný. (various references)

Danish

paa atomar maalestok er stoerkningen en overgang fra en uordnet til en ordnet tilstand (on the atomic scale, solidification is the process by which a disordered state is transformed to an ordered state), meta-stabil fejlordnet zone (metastable disordered zone), menstruationsuregelmaæssighed (disordered menstrual cycle), hjerterytmeforstyrrelse (disordered cardiac rhythm), forstyrret cyklus (disordered menstrual cycle), fjernhaandtering i farlige og oedelagte miljoeer (remote handling in hazardous and disordered environments), fejlordnet krystalzone (disordered zone), bevidsthedsforstyrrelse (disordered condition of consciousness, disturbance of consciousness). (various references)

Dutch

zone met wanorde (disordered zone), telemanipulatie in gevaarlijke en wanordelijke situaties (remote handling in hazardous and disordered environments), op atomaire schaal gezien is stollen de overgang van een ongeordend systeem naar een geordend systeem (on the atomic scale, solidification is the process by which a disordered state is transformed to an ordered state), metastabiele ongeordende zone (metastable disordered zone), bewustzijnsstoornis (disordered condition of consciousness, disturbance of consciousness). (various references)

Finnish

sekasortoinen (chaotic). (various references)

French

zone de désordre métastable (metastable disordered zone), zone de désordre (disordered zone), troubles du cycle (disordered menstrual cycle), trouble du rythme cardiaque (disordered cardiac rhythm), trouble de la conscience (disordered condition of consciousness, disturbance of consciousness), télémanipulation dans des environnements dangereux et perturbés (remote handling in hazardous and disordered environments), la solidification se traduit, � l'échelle atomique, par le passage d'un état désordonné � un état ordonné (solidification is the process by which a disordered state is transformed to an ordered state), électronique des solides désordonnées (electronics of disordered solids). (various references)

German

zerrüttet (broken, disorders, shattered, subverts, unstrung). (various references)

Greek 

σε ατομική κλίμακα,η παραμόρφωση είναι η μετάβαση από την κατάσταση αταξίας στην κατάσταση τάξης (on the atomic scale, solidification is the process by which a disordered state is transformed to an ordered state), ζώνη μετασταθούς αταξίας (metastable disordered zone), ζώνη αταξίας (disordered zone), τηλεχειρισμός σε επικίνδυνο και διαταραγμένο περιβάλλον (remote handling in hazardous and disordered environments), διαταραγμένος καρδιακός ρυθμός (disordered cardiac rhythm), διαταραχή συνείδησης (alteration in consciousness, altered consciousness, disordered condition of consciousness, disturbance of consciousness), � ρόγραμμα έρευνας και κατάρτισης για την Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα Ατομικής Ενέργειας στον τομέα του τηλεχειρισμού σε περιβάλλον πυρηνικού κιν (Research and training programme for the European Atomic Energy Community in the field of remote handling in nuclear hazardous and disordered environments(1989-93)). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"פרע (be disordered, be uncovered). (various references)

Indonesian

kusut (knotty, tousled, tously), kacau (disorderly, entangled, muddle), acak (random). (various references)

Italian

zone disordinata metastabile (metastable disordered zone), zona cristallina fuori ordine (disordered zone), telemanipolazione in ambienti pericolosi e perturbati (remote handling in hazardous and disordered environments), in scala atomica, la solidificazione è il passaggio da uno stato di disordine a uno di ordine (on the atomic scale, solidification is the process by which a disordered state is transformed to an ordered state). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乱菊 , 乱れる　 (to be disordered, to be disturbed, to get confused), 乱れる (to be disordered, to be disturbed, to get confused). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ら�"ぎく, み� れる (to be disordered, to be disturbed, to get confused). (various references)

Korean 

난잡한. (various references)

Manx

neureajagh (disorderly, incorrect, indiscreet), fud y cheilley (at variance, chaotic, confused, confusing, confusion, dishevelled, disorder, embarrassed, flustered, mixed up, muddle, muddled, perplexed, tangled, topsy-turvy), doghanit (diseased, infected), doghanagh (diseased, ill, morbid, sick person, sickly), ching (ill, nauseated, painful, sore, ulcer), bun ry skyn (inverted, topsy-turvy, vice versa, wrong side up), bun ry baare (confusion, disorder, topsy-turvy), baanrit (demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, maniac). (various references)

Pig Latin

isorderedday

Portuguese

zona desordenada metastavel (metastable disordered zone), zona desordenada (disordered zone), transtorno do ritmo cardíaco (disordered cardiac rhythm), ritmo cardíaco desordenado (disordered cardiac rhythm), manipulação remota em ambientes de risco e desordenados (remote handling in hazardous and disordered environments). (various references)

Spanish

desordenado (disorderly, dissipatedly, hugger mugger, inordinate, pell mell, pellmell, ragged, riotous, topsyturvy, untidy), desconcertado en algo, desarreglado (disorderly, tousled, untidily, untidy), trastornado (deranged, dislocated, disrupted, disturbed, moonstruck, turned, unsettled). (various references)

Swedish

defektzon (disordered zone), oordnad zon (disordered zone), metastabilt oordnat område (metastable disordered zone), metastabilt amorft skikt (metastable disordered zone). (various references)

Turkish

düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, excursive, fitful, freehand, haywire, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, rambling, snatchy, snuffy, unequal, unkempt, unsteady, untidy), karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, combined, complicated, composite, compound, confused, deep, disconcerted, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, kinky, knotted, knotty, mazy, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references)

Ukrainian

розладнаний (crank, maladjusted, out of tune), доведений до безладдя. (various references)

commotus, confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus, conturbata, conturbatae, conturbati, conturbatum, conturbatumque, conturbatus, turbidam, turbido. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "disordered": disorderedly, disorderedness, disorderednesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dodderers.

-2 letters: deriders, disorder, dodderer, resodded.

-3 letters: derided, derider, derides, derries, desired, desirer, dodders, ordered, oreides, redders, redried, redries, reredos, resided, resider, ridders, serried.

-4 letters: deride, derris, desire, didoes, diodes, dodder, dories, dorser, driers, droids, eddied, eddies, eddoes, eiders, eroded, erodes, orders, oreide, redded, redder, redoes, rerise, rerose, reside, ridded, ridder, riders, rodded, rosier.

+2 letters: disorderedly.

+4 letters: disorderedness.

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