Disorderly

4 definitions found

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

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

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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