disordered
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
disordered
adj 1: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops
fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on
the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything
so upset" [syn: {broken}, {confused}, {disordered},
{upset}]
2: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions";
"a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected
fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: {confused},
{disconnected}, {disjointed}, {disordered}, {garbled},
{illogical}, {scattered}, {unconnected}]
3: not arranged in order [syn: {disordered}, {unordered}] [ant:
{ordered}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disorder \Dis*or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disordered}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Disordering}.]
1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to
throw into confusion; to confuse.
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Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence.
--Burke.
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The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary
rafters into a common ruin. --Jer. Taylor.
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2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions
of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or
indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to
disorder the head or stomach.
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A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party
spirit. --Macaulay.
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3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "disordered":
aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amiss, amorphous, askew, awry,
balled-up, batty, bedlamite, blobby, blurred, blurry, bothered,
broad, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, chaotic, cockeyed,
confused, convulsed, cracked, crazed, crazy, demented, deranged,
desultory, disarranged, disarticulated, discomfited, discomposed,
disconcerted, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, disjunct,
dislocated, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate,
disturbed, embarrassed, erratic, fitful, flustered, fluttered,
foggy, formless, frivolous, fussed, fuzzy, general, gratuitous,
haphazard, haywire, hazy, hit-or-miss, hypochondriac, hysteric,
ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in a jumble, in a pother,
in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy,
in disorder, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive,
indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, irregular, jumbled, lax,
loose, lunatic, meaningless, misplaced, misshapen, mixed-up,
muddled, neurasthenic, neurotic, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical,
nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, on the fritz, orderless,
out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter,
out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perplexed,
perturbed, phobic, planless, promiscuous, psychasthenic,
psychoneurotic, put-out, random, rattled, roily, ruffled,
senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaken, shapeless, shook,
shuffled, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly,
sweeping, systemless, turbid, turbulent, unarranged, unclassified,
unclear, unconnected, undefined, undestined, undetermined,
undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered,
unorganized, unplain, unsettled, unsorted, unspecified,
unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, upset, vague, veiled,
wandering
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