Disordered

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disordered \Dis*or"dered\, a.
     1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house,
        judgment.
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     2. Disorderly. [Obs.] --Shak. -- {Dis*or"dered*ly}, adv. --
        {Dis*or"dered*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {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},
          {garbled}, {illogical}, {scattered}, {unconnected}]
       3: not arranged in order [syn: {unordered}] [ant: {ordered}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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