Untidy

Definition: Untidy

Untidy

Adjective

1. Not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money".

2. Careless and slovenly.

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

Date "untidy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Note: Untidy \Un*ti"dy\, adjective. 1. Unseasonable; untimely. [Obsolete]. (references)

Disorder

Immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; (see arrange; ); confused; deranged; topsy-turvy; (inverted); shapeless; disjointed, out of joint.

Uncleanness

Slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly.

Crosswords: Untidy

An Untidy Package (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Discussion of the Ideology of the American Dream in the Culture's Female Discourses: The Untidy House (Women's Studies, V. 25.) (reference)

• Spindrift : UNTiDy tales of officer cadets (reference)

• The Untidy Bride (New Canadian Poets) (reference)

• The Untidy Pilgrim (A Deep South Book) (reference)

• Untidy candles : an anthology of contemporary Maine poets (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It would have been all the better, as it seemed to Alice, if she had got some one else to dress her, she was so dreadfully untidy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "untidy": untidy person ♦ untidy woman. Additional references.

Beginning with "untidy": untidy-haired, untidy-looking.

Albanian

i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful), i çrregullt (anomalous, disorderly, erratic, fitful, formless, irregular, messy, tumultuary, unkempt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, verminous, vile), ‏غير ملائم (awkward, awkwardly, clumsy, disadvantageous, inadequate, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incommensurate, inconvenient, inept, unfortunate, unfriendly, unhandy, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely), ‏غير مرتب (disheveled, dishevelled, messy, out of order, scrubby, untidiness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разхвърлян (desultory, higgledy-piggledy, incoherent, messy, pell mell, piggish, scattered, unkempt), размъкнат (slipshod), разбъркан (deranged, farraginous, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled, mixing up, out of order, pell mell, perturbed, promiscuous, tumultuary, turbid), неспретнат, небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding). (various references)

Chinese 

襶 . (various references)

Czech

v nepořádku (disordered, out of order), rozcuchaný (disheveled, dishevelled, straggly, unkempt, unruly, wind swept), neupravený (blowzy, dowdy, mussy, sloppy, undressed, unkempt, wild), nepořádný (disorderly, ill-sorted, messy, mussy, orderless, slatternly, unkempt), neúhledný (unseemly), ledabylý (careless, casual, cavalier, lax, remiss, slapdash). (various references)

Dutch

ruigharig (bristly, hairy, shaggy, standing on end), rechtopstaand (bristly, standing on end, vertical), borstelig (bristly, standing on end). (various references)

Esperanto

hirta (bristly, standing on end). (various references)

Faeroese

ývin (bristly, standing on end). (various references)

Farsi 

نامرتب (Disheveled, Irregular, Sloppy, Slovenly, Unequal, Unkempt), درهم وبرهم (Desultory, Imbroglio, Sloppy, Turbid, Unorganized, Woebegone). (various references)

Finnish

siivoton (bedraggled, indecent, messy, unkempt), siivoamaton (in disorder), siistimätön (not tidied up, untrimmed), ruokoton (filthy, improper, obscene), roskainen (littered), epäsiisti (bedraggled, dirty, sloppy, slovenly). (various references)

French

hirsute, brouillon (untidily), ébouriffé. (various references)

German

unordentlich (disarranged, disordered, disorderly, messily, messy, mussy, straggling, unkempt, unorderly, untidily, wild). (various references)

Greek 

ακατάστατοσ (blowzy, disorderly, frowsy, frowzy, messy, mussy, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, unsettled), ακατάστατος (disorderly, messy, shabby), ανοικοκύρευτοσ (not married yet). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא מסו�"ר (disorderly, slipshod). (various references)

Hungarian

rendetlen (cluttered, deranged, dingy, disorderly, erratic, flipperty-flopperty, higgledy-piggledy, messy, pell mell, ragged, rooky, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, snuffy, straggly, tumultuous, unkempt), piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean), gondozatlan (negligent, uncared for, uncared-for), ápolatlan (frouzy, frowzy, scruffy, slatternly, slovenly, unkempt). (various references)

Indonesian

teledor (negligent, reckless), tak rapi, lalai (absent-minded, careless, dilatory, indifferent, neglectful, remiss), ambreg (messy). (various references)

Italian

trasandato (dowdy, scruffy, shabby, sleazy, slipshod, slovenly), disordinato (disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, irregular, messy, muddled, pell mell, slovenly, unsettled, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ふさぎ込む (fast, impudent, loose, messy, slovenly, to mope, with a whiff). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふし� ら (fast, loose, messy, slovenly). (various references)

Manx

whoam (untidy stitch). (various references)

Pig Latin

idyuntay.(various references)

Portuguese

sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, unwashed), relaxado (blowzy, loose), hirto (bristly, rigid, standing on end, stark, stiff), eriçado (bristly, rough, standing on end, stubbly), desordenado (deranged, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, immoderate, indigested, inordinate, lawless, pell-mell, rough and tumble, tumultuous, turbulent), desmazelado (frumpish, grubby, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slatternly, slipshod, slouch, slovenly), desleixado (careless, floppy, forgetful, frumpish, incurious, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slouch, slovenly, uncared-for), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, unwary), desalinhado (blowzy, frowzy, messy, slovenly). (various references)

Romanian

neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, unwary), neîngrijit (dowdy, frowzy, grubby, poky, shabby, slattern, sloppy, unkempt, weed-grown), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean), dezordonat (dishevelled, disorderly, erratic, ill-regulated, irregular, messy, riotous, slipshod, unkempt). (various references)

Russian 

неопрятный (frowzy, grubby, unclean, unkempt). (various references)

Scottish

luirist (an untidy person), loigear (an untidy person), fleogan (an untidy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neuredan (disorderly, disorganized, frowsy, frowzy, inordinate, littery, sloppy, slovenly). (various references)

Spanish

desaliñado (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, frowzy, frumpish, messy, neglected, scruffy, slovenly, tacky, unkempt). (various references)

Swedish

slarvig (careless, down at heel, fribble, frivolous, inattentive, off hand, offhand, offhanded, shoddy, slapdash, sloppy, slovenly, slutish), skräpig (littered, rubbishy), ovårdad (dishevelled, neglected, ragged, ratty, scruffy, slovenly, substandard, unkempt), ostädad (in disorder). (various references)

Turkish

savruk, pasaklı (dowdy, dowdyish, draggled, frowzy, gay, messy, out of trim, ratty, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, sloven, slovenly), kılıksız (dowdy, dowdyish, down heels, down the heels, draggled, frumpish, hangdog, mean, poky, ratty, seedy, shabby, sleazy, slovenly), derbeder (down and out, frumpish, roguish, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), dağınık (bedraggled, diffuse, disorganized, dispersed, messy, out of trim, ragged, scattered, scruffy, sick, straggling, straggly, unkempt, wild), dağılmış (decayed, diffuse, dissipated, effuse, scattered, spread, tapped), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, 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). (various references)

Ukrainian

неохайний (chatty, dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, scruffy, slapdash, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, sloven, slovenly, soppy, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt), неприбраний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

xốc xếch, rối (tangly), lôi thôi (slovenly, uncared-for), không sắp xếp gọn, bừa b i (wild). (various references)

Welsh

ble+r (slovenly), balciog (full of balks), ansyber (discourteous, slovenly), anniben (slovenly, slow), anhygar (unamiable, unpleasant), anhrefnus (chaotic, disorderly), anghymen, afle+r (slovenly). (various references)

incultus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "untidy": untidying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Untidy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unid, unrid, unshy. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nudity.

-1 letter: unity.

-2 letters: dint, duit, dunt, duty, tidy, tiny, tyin, undy, unit.

-3 letters: din, dit, dui, dun, nit, nut, tin, tui, tun, yid, yin.

-4 letters: id, in, it, nu, ti, un, ut.

+2 letters: disunity, industry, punditry, studying, unitedly, untidily.

+3 letters: fecundity, jocundity, mundanity, rotundity, untidying.

+4 letters: dauntingly, doubtingly, impudently, inundatory, orotundity, profundity, restudying, seminudity, unsteadily.

+5 letters: antisubsidy, countryfied, countryside, countrywide, disquantity, dysfunction, imprudently, incredulity, indubitably, inductively, indulgently, moribundity, nonauditory, nonindustry, outstudying, outyielding, rubicundity, rudimentary, subindustry, sustainedly, undutifully, unlimitedly, unsteadying.