disorderly | Definition of disorderly

Synonyms and Antonyms of disorderly

1 not restrained by or under the control of legal authority

disorderly mobs roamed the streets after the fall of the city

Synonyms of disorderly

anarchic (also anarchical), lawbreaking, lawless, unruly

Words Related to disorderly

defiant, insubordinate, mutinous, rebellious, refractory, riotous

criminal, felonious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, unlawful, wrongful

disobedient, froward, intractable, recalcitrant

Near Antonyms of disorderly

lawful, legal, legalized, legitimate

amenable, compliant, docile, obedient, submissive, tractable

Antonyms of disorderly

law-abiding, orderly

2 lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

disorderly piles of clothes on various tables about the room

Synonyms of disorderly

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, pell-mell, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, unkempt, untidy, upside-down

Words Related to disorderly

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, smudged, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly

dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), shaggy, slatternly, sloven, slovenly, uncombed

adulterated, contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted

knotted, snarled, tangled

seedy, shabby, sleazy, sordid

neglected, neglectful, negligent

Phrases Synonymous with disorderly

at sixes and sevens, out of joint

Near Antonyms of disorderly

antiseptic, clean, cleaned, cleanly, hygienic, immaculate, sparkling, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied

methodical (also methodic), regular, systematic, systematized

careful, fastidious, finicky, fussy, meticulous

combed, groomed, manicured, well-groomed

taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesome

Antonyms of disorderly

bandbox, crisp, kempt, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized, shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered