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Definition: Disorganized |
DisorganizedAdjective1. 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 "disorganized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Synonym: DisorganizedSynonym: disorganised (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: organized (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Adjective: disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous; (unconformable); acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disorganized |
| English words defined with "disorganized": carnival, circus ♦ disorganised, disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia ♦ forgetful person ♦ huddle ♦ scatterbrain, scramble, scuffle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disorganized": Seizures. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disorganized": Disorganize. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But they seemed so disorganized (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Disorganized Crime (1989) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sun-exposed epidermis becomes thickened as much as twofold compared to sun-protected skin and is disorganized, showing evidence of hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, and acanthosis. (references) | |
In some cases, abusers forego food and sleep while indulging in a form of binging known as a "run," injecting as much as a gram of the drug every 2 to 3 hours over several days until the user runs out of the drug or is too disorganized to continue. (references) | ||
For example, the tissue through which axons move is more loosely connected during development, and an injured spinal cord may become quite disorganized near the injury site. Also, distances in the adult CNS are much greater than in the embryo, and chemical signposts for navigating axons may have changed in the adult. (references) | ||
Business | This is a new market segment without comprehensive statistics, and information is spotty and disorganized. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | The process is disorganized and there is confusion as to the limits and scope of the new authorities. (references) |
Human Rights | Venezuela | The Government's investigation of these cases has been extremely slow and disorganized. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | We simply must begin with, and mould from, disorganized and discordant elements. |
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| "Disorganized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Disorganized" is used about 72 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) | 66.67% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 18.06% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 15.28% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "disorganized": disorganized schizophrenia ♦ disorganized type schizophrenia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disorganized schizophrenia | 15 |
disorganized | 6 |
disorganized thinking | 3 |
disorganized crime | 3 |
attachment disorganized | 3 |
disorganized student | 3 |
disorganized etiology schizophrenia | 3 |
disorganized schizophrenia type | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disorganized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shthurur (debauched, dissipated, dissolute, impure, libertine, licentious, loose, profligate, promiscuous, unrighteous), i çrregulluar (deranged, disturbed, downgrade), i çorganizuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضطرب (confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, rough, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, upset), مشوش (become confused, chaotic, confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disturbed, disturber, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled up, messy, mixed, muddled, muddy, promiscuous, unsettled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дезорганизиран. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 混乱 (Chaotic, Clamorous, Confusion, Disarray, Disordered, disorganise, disorganised, Disorganize, Disorganizing, mess, Muddle, Muddled, Muddling, ravel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dizorganizovaný, chaotický (amorphous, chaotic, in chaos, messy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hajaannustilassa oleva (disintegrated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inorganisé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungeordnet (disordered, orderless, unorganized, untidy), desorganisierte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szervezetlen (disorganised, non-union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | semrawut (chaotic), kisruh (anarchic, chaotic, confused), amburadul (chaotic, disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不規律 (irregular, slipshod, undisciplined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふきりつ (irregular, slipshod, undisciplined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isorganizedday безалаберный. (various references) neuredan (disorderly, frowsy, frowzy, inordinate, littery, sloppy, slovenly, untidy), neuređen (unregulated), neorganizovan (spotty, unorganized). (various references) desestructurado. (various references) oordnad (confused, disreputable, incoherent, pell mell, rough and tumble, wild), kaotisk (chaotic, jumbly, snafu), i en enda röra. (various references) dağınık (bedraggled, diffuse, dispersed, messy, out of trim, ragged, scattered, scruffy, sick, straggling, straggly, unkempt, untidy, wild), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, 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, disordered, disorderly, 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), altüst olmuş (upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | KA . . . ke. (various references) |
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"Disorganized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desorganised, disorganise, disorganised. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disorganized" (pronounced di'sô"rgunī'zd) |
| 8 | -ô" r g u n ī' z d | organized, reorganized, unorganized. |
| 6 | -g u n ī' z d | agonized, antagonized. |
| 5 | -u n ī' z d | aluminized, balkanized, carbonized, colonized, demonized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, homogenized, humanized, immunized, lionized, mechanized, nonunionized, patronized, revolutionized, scrutinized, synchronized, unionized, urbanized. |
| 4 | -n ī' z d | ironized, modernized, recognized, unrecognized, westernized. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, amortized, analyzed, anglicized, annualized, apologized, authorized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, capsized, caramelized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, circumcised, civilized, collateralized, collectivized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, criticized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, disenfranchised, downsized, dramatized, editorialized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, heroized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, hypothesized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, improvised, industrialized, internalized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, localized, magnetized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, symbolized, sympathized, synthesized, tantalized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, undersized, underutilized, unexercised, unrealized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, winterized. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-i-n-o-r-s-z" | |
-1 letter: disorganize. | |
-3 letters: diagnosed, grandiose, organdies, organised, organized, organizes, resodding. | |
-4 letters: adenoids, agonised, agonized, agonizes, androids, aneroids, anodized, anodizes, deairing, deraigns, deriding, derision, desiring, diagnose, diazines, dreading, gradines, indigoes, indorsed, iodizers, ionizers, ironized, ironizes, ironside, negroids, ordained, organdie, organise, organize, radioing, readding, readings, residing, resinoid, resizing, ringside, roadside, seignior. | |
-5 letters: adenoid, adoring, adorned, agnized, agnizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 6F 72 67 61 6E 69 7A 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 01111010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s o r g a n i z e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 006F 0072 0067 0061 006E 0069 007A 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585818473678075927170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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