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Definition of 'mess'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) mess
a dirty or untidy condition.

2.  mess
a person or thing that is dirty, untidy, or disordered.

3.  mess
a state of confusion.

4.  mess
an unpleasant or difficult situation.

5.  mess
a dirty or untidy mass:
a mess of papers.

6.  mess
a group regularly taking their meals together.

7.  mess
the meal so taken.

8.  mess
a quantity of food sufficient for a dish or a single occasion.

9.  mess
sloppy or unappetizing food.

10.  mess
a dish or quantity of soft or liquid food.

11.  mess
a person whose life, mental state, or affairs are in a state of confusion.

12. (v.t.) mess
to make dirty or untidy (often fol. by up):
Don't mess up the room.

13.  mess
to make a mess or muddle of (affairs, responsibilities, etc.) (often fol. by up).

14. (v.i.) mess
to make a mess.

15.  mess
to eat in company, esp. as a member of a mess.

16.  mess
mess around or about,

17.  mess
to busy oneself aimlessly; waste time.

18.  mess
mess in or with, to intervene officiously; meddle.

19.  mess
to perform poorly; produce errors or confusion.

20.  mess
to treat roughly; beat up.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME mes < OF: a course at a meal < LL missus what is sent (i.e., put on the table), n. use of ptp. of L mittere to send)

Definition of 'mess'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) mess, messiness, muss, mussiness
a state of confusion and disorderliness
"the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

2. (noun) fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

3. (noun) mess
soft semiliquid food
"a mess of porridge"

4. (noun) mess
a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

5. (noun) mess, mess hall
a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

6. (verb) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

7. (verb) mess
eat in a mess hall

8. (verb) mess, mess up
make a mess of or create disorder in
"He messed up his room"

Definition of 'mess'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) mess
the state of being dirty or not neat
I can't live in this mess.; His room is always such a mess.; Please try not to make a mess.

2. mess
be a mess
to be unable to control your emotions
After he died, I was a mess.

3. (verb) mess
to behave in a foolish, immature way

Definition of 'mess'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) mess
mass; church service

2. (noun) mess
a quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time

3. (noun) mess
a number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess

4. (noun) mess
a set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner

5. (noun) mess
the milk given by a cow at one milking

6. (noun) mess
a disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it

7. (verb) mess
to take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers

8. (verb) mess
to supply with a mess

Translation of 'mess'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a state of disorder or confusion; an untidy, dirty or unpleasant sight or muddle This room is in a terrible mess!; She looked a mess; The spilt food made a mess on the carpet.
Afrikaans: gemors	Arabic: فَوْضى	Bulgarian: бъркотия
Brazilian: confusão	Czech: nepořádek; zmatek; špína	German: das Durcheinander
Danish: rod; griseri	Greek: ακαταστασία, ανακατωσούρα	Spanish: desastre, enredo, lío
Estonian: segadus	Farsi: اشفته	Finnish: sotku
French: désordre, gâchis	Hebrew: לִכלוּך, בָּלָגָן	Hindi: भोजनालय
Croatian: zbrka	Hungarian: rendetlenség; piszok	Indonesian: kekalutan
Icelandic: drasl;óreiða	Italian: confusione, disordine	Japanese: 混乱
Korean: 엉망인 상태, 혼란	Lithuanian: netvarka, maišatis, kas n	Latvian: juceklis; nekārtība; netī
Malay: kucar kacir	Dutch: rotzooi	Norwegian: rot, uorden, virvar
Polish: nieład, bałagan	Persian: بى نظم، اشفته	Pashto: بى نظمه
Portuguese: confusão.	Romanian: dezordine; murdărie	Russian: беспорядок;грязь
Slovak: neporiadok;špina	Slovenian: nered	Serbian: nered
Swedish: röra, oreda, smörja	Thai: สภาพรกรุงรัง	Turkish: karışıklık; kir, pislik
Taiwanese: 混亂	Ukrainian: безладдя, безлад	Urdu: بے ترتیبی
Vietnamese: tình trạng hỗn độn	Chinese: 混乱
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