Disorderly \Dis*or"der*ly\, a.
1. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged;
immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly
state.
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2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body
or mind.
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3. Not complying with the restraints of order and law;
tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly
people; disorderly assemblies.
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4. (Law) Offensive to good morals and public decency;
notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.
Syn: Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous;
inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disorderly \Dis*or"der*ly\, adv.
In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly;
confusedly.
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Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh
disorderly. --2 Thess.
iii. 6.
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Savages fighting disorderly with stones. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
disorderly
adj 1: undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly
conduct" [ant: orderly]
2: in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: higgledy-piggledy,
hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy]
3: completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn: chaotic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "disorderly":
amiss, amorphic, amorphous, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic,
antinomian, askew, awry, bad, baggy, blobby, blurred, blurry,
boisterous, capricious, changeable, changing, chaotic,
characterless, choppy, cluttered, cockeyed, confused, convulsed,
deranged, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disarranged,
discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disobedient,
disordered, disorganized, disruptive, disturbed, divaricate,
divergent, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, featureless,
formless, fuzzy, haphazard, haywire, hazy, helter-skelter,
higgledy-piggledy, improper, impulsive, in disarray, in disorder,
inchoate, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indefinite,
indeterminate, inform, intractable, irregular, jagged, jerky,
jumbled, kaleidoscopic, lawless, lumpen, mercurial, messy,
misbehaving, misplaced, misty, motley, muddled, mutable, mutinous,
naughty, nihilistic, noisy, nonconformist, nondescript,
nonstandard, nonuniform, not respectable, obscure, obstreperous,
off-base, 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, out-of-line, pell-mell, perturbed,
pluralistic, ragged, rampant, raucous, rebellious, refractory,
revolutionary, riotous, roily, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly,
rumbustious, scrambled, shapeless, shuffled, spasmodic, sporadic,
syndicalistic, termagant, terrorist, topsy-turvy, tumultuous,
turbid, turbulent, unbehaving, unbridled, unclear, uncontrollable,
uncontrolled, undefined, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven,
ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unordered, unorganized,
unorthodox, unrestrained, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unsteady,
unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, upset, vague, variable,
variegated, variform, various, varying, violent, wavering, wild
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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