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Definition: Untidiness |
UntidinessNoun1. The condition of being untidy. 2. The trait of being untidy and messy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "untidiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references) |
Synonym: UntidinessSynonym: messiness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: tidiness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Untidiness |
| English words defined with "untidiness": disarray, disorderliness ♦ sloppiness, slovenliness ♦ unkemptness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "untidiness": Figure of Fun. (references) |
| "Untidiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Untidiness" is used about 31 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
untidiness | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "untidiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkujdesje (carelessness, disregard, ease, improvidence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laxity, lightness, negligence, thoughtlessness, unconcern), çrregull (moil). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير مرتب (disheveled, dishevelled, messy, out of order, scrubby, untidy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разбърканост, неспретнатост, безредие (anarchy, clutter, disarray, disorder, embroilment, imbroglio, misrule, negligence, pandemonium, pell mell). (various references) | |
Czech | neupravenost, nespořádanost, nepořádnost, nepořádek (disarrangement, disarray, disorder, mess, messiness, tumble), neúhlednost, ledabylost (carelessness, laxity). (various references) | |
Dutch | viesheid (dirtiness), onreinheid (dirtiness), morsigheid (dirtiness). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malpureco (dirtiness). (various references) | |
Finnish | siivottomuus (indecency), epäsiisteys. (various references) | |
French | désordre, débraillé (unkempt, untidy). (various references) | |
German | Unordentlichkeit (disorderliness). (various references) | |
Greek | ακαταστασία (disorder, mess, messiness, muss, slatternliness, sloppiness, slovenliness, topsy-turviness, unkemptness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אי ס"ר (chaos, disarray, disorder, litter, mess, turmoil). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendetlenség (dinginess, disarray, disorder, hugger-mugger, litter, mess, messiness, mess-up, mix-up, muss, picnic, shambles, tumble, turbulence). (various references) | |
Italian | disordine (confusion, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, disturbance, helter-skelter, intemperance, mess, muddle, upset). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idinessuntay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falta de asseio (slovenliness), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, disorder, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, upset), desmazelo (insouciance, slouch, slovenliness), desleixo (laxity, neglect, negligence, slatternliness, slouch), desalinho (discomposure, frumpiness, slovenliness). (various references) | |
Russian | неопрятность (dirtiness), неаккуратность. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neurednost (disorderliness). (various references) | |
Spanish | desorden (chaos, clutter, confusion, defile, disarray, disorder, lawlessness, litter, muddle, muss, turbulence, turmoil, unrest). (various references) | |
Turkish | pasaklılık (dowdiness, frowziness, sloppiness), dağınıklık (clutter, cock up, diffusiveness, disarrangement, disarray, disorganization, dispersion, litter, waywardness), düzensizlik (disarrangement, disarray, disharmony, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, hugger mugger, huggermugger, inequality, irregularity, looseness, muss, waywardness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розгардіяш (hugger mugger), неохайність (dirtiness, grime, grubbiness, negligence, slapdash). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xốc xếch, sự lộn xộn (chaos, confusedness, devil, disarray, messiness, riot, shemozzle), sự lôi thôi, sự bù xù, sự bừa b i, không sắp. (various references) | |
Welsh | annibendod (slowness), anghymhendod (foolishness, indelicacy), aflerwch (slovenliness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "untidiness": untidinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Untidiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: untaines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: disunites. | |
-2 letters: disunite, dunnites, insisted, nudities, sunniest, tidiness, tininess, untidies. | |
-3 letters: dentins, dissent, dunites, dunness, dunnest, dunnite, indents, indites, insides, intends, intines, niduses, nudists, sennits, snidest, studies, stunned, tineids, tissued, tunnies, undines, unities. | |
-4 letters: deists, dentin, desist, diesis, disuse, dunite, duties, ennuis, indent, indies, indite, indues, insets, inside, insist, intend, intine, issued, niseis, nudest. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-n-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: discontinues, unsensitized, untidinesses. | |
+3 letters: mountainsides. | |
+4 letters: diminutiveness, disfurnishment, insubordinates. | |
+5 letters: discontinuances, discontinuities, disfurnishments, disillusionment, indubitableness, industriousness, interdiffusions, rudimentariness, subinfeudations, superinductions, undistinguished, uninhibitedness, unmitigatedness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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