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Definition: Disorganised |
DisorganisedAdjective1. Lacking order or methodical arrangement or function; "a disorganized enterprise"; "a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose"; "she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disorganised" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
"Disorganised" is a common misspelling or typo for: disorganized. |
Synonym: DisorganisedSynonym: disorganized (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: organized (adj). (additional references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In reaching a decision on this matter the Commission shall take into account such domestic requirements of Germany as it deems essential for the maintenance of Germany's social and economic life, the prices and dates at which similar articles can be obtained in the Allied and Associated countries as compared with those to be fixed for German articles, and the general interest of the Allied and Associated Governments that the industrial life of Germany be not so disorganised as to affect adversely the ability of Germany to perform the other acts of reparation stipulated for. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Disorganised" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 46.81% of the time. "Disorganised" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.81% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 25.53% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 23.4% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "disorganised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 混乱 (Chaotic, Clamorous, Confusion, Disarray, Disordered, disorganise, Disorganize, Disorganized, Disorganizing, mess, Muddle, Muddled, Muddling, ravel). (various references) | ||||
Greek | ανοργάνωτος. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | szervezetlen (disorganized, non-union), szétszórt (be scattered, diffuse, straggling, strewn). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isorganisedday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: addressing, digression. | |
-3 letters: derisions, diagnosed, diagnoses, diagnosis, diseasing, dodginess, giddiness, gneissoid, grandiose, ironsides, organdies, organised, organises, resinoids, resodding, rigidness, ringsides, roadsides, seigniors, signories. | |
-4 letters: adenoids, adenosis, adonises, agonised, agonises, airiness, androids, aneroids, argosies, aridness, assigned, assigner, assignor, deairing, deraigns, deriding, derision, desiring, diagnose, disdains, dreading, dressing, erasions, godsends, goriness, gradines, indigoes, indorsed, indorses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 6F 72 67 61 6E 69 73 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... --- .-. --. .- -. .. ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01101111 01110010 01100111 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s o r g a n i s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 006F 0072 0067 0061 006E 0069 0073 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585818473678075857170 |
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