disorder

Roget category 59

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.4. Order
›› 1.4.1. Order in general

#59. [Absence, or want of Order, &c.] Disorder

noun

disorder — derangement etc. 61 — irregularity — anomaly etc. (unconformity) 83 — anarchy, anarchism — want of method — untidiness etc. adj. — disunion — discord etc. 24.
confusion — confusedness etc. adj. — mishmash, mix — disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber — cahotage^† — farrago — mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge — hotch-potch^†, hotch-pot^† — imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum [Lat.], medley — mere mixture etc. 41 — fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra [Lat.], rudis indigestaque moles [Lat.] [Ovid]. complexity etc. 59.1. turmoil — ferment etc. (agitation) 315 — to-do, trouble, pudder^†, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour^†, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble — whirlwind etc. 349 — bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors [Lat.] — Bedlam, all hell broke loose — bull in a china shop — all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre [Fr.], Devil to pay — pretty kettle of fish — pretty piece of work [Fr.], pretty piece of business [Fr.].
[legal terms] disorderly person — disorderly persons offence — misdemeanor.
[moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.

verb

be disorderly etc. adj. — ferment, play at cross-purposes.
put out of order — derange etc. 61 — ravel etc. 219 — ruffle, rumple.

adjective

disorderly, orderless — out of order, out of place, out of gear — irregular, desultory — anomalous etc. (unconformable) 83 — acephalous^†, deranged — aimless — disorganized — straggling — unmethodical, immethodical^† — unsymmetric^†, unsystematic — untidy, slovenly — dislocated — out of sorts — promiscuous, indiscriminate — chaotic, anarchical — unarranged etc. (arrange) etc. 60 — confused — deranged etc. 61 — topsy-turvy etc. (inverted) 218 — shapeless etc. 241 — disjointed, out of joint.
troublous^† — riotous etc. (violent) 173.
complex etc. 59.1.

adverb

irregularly etc. adj. — by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts — pellmell — higgledy-piggledy — helter-skelter, harum-scarum — in a ferment — at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes — upside down etc. 218.

phrase

the cart before the horse — hysteron proteron [Gr.] — chaos is come again — the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" [Addison].

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