cluttered
- adjective
- /ˈklʌtərd/
- Her cluttered desk made it difficult to concentrate on her work.
- a cluttered room
I don't like when it's super cluttered, so I wouldn't like that.
- I don't like when it's super cluttered, so I wouldn't like that.
- I don't think I've seen an interface this unintuitive and cluttered.
- Otherwise I tend to end up in a sort of hamster wheel that I can't control and it feels like a cluttered mess.
- So I'm going to be showing you everything that's kind of messy and cluttered and crazy in this drawer right behind me, right over here.
- And you have to do so in a systematic way that means that things can't all just be left out like on a, on a workbench, you know, cluttered up.
Examples
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The locker room is dark, dead quiet, and cluttered with junk like a robber's cave.
Fiction book (1993) -
Ellen tossed the bag onto the cluttered worktable and went into the bedroom.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's so cluttered and dark.
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Somewhere far back in the cluttered apartment, something moves and comes to life.
Fiction book (1990) -
The harbor itself seemed as cluttered and busy as the streets of the city.
Fiction book (1992) -
Buddy Guy was taking a break in a dark, cluttered upstairs room at his club, Legends.
Academic text (2002) -
Her rooms were next door to us, small and cluttered with her winnings and her handiwork.
Fiction book (1990) -
Stanley enters the grease-spattered, cluttered garage and scans the area for signs of life.
Fiction book (1994) -
The kitchen was so cluttered with dirty dishes that it was hard to find a place to cook.
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After moving in, I realized my new apartment was cluttered with old furniture from the previous tenant.
Synonyms
Not tidy or clean, with things in the wrong place
Untidy and done without care
Not in a clear order or plan
Having too many details so it looks crowded
Not neat, with things like papers or clothes left around
Something that is untidy and not in order
Not arranged in a clear or tidy way
A place or thing that is untidy and not in order
Covered with rubbish and other things in an untidy way
Mixed together in a confused and untidy way
Messy and jumbled so people cannot understand it
Antonyms
How Messy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cluttered comes from the sound word clutter, which is like clatter and suggests 'noise' and a jumble of objects. So a cluttered room is full of too many things and looks messy, as if everything has been thrown together.