untidiness
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2.5
- noun
- /ʌnˈtaɪdɪnəs/
:
desorden
- The young lady behind the counter was cheerful, but there was an untidiness about the shelves that annoyed Mrs. Enderby.
- comfortable untidiness
- general untidiness
Examples
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She glanced down at her already wrinkled blue blouse and the flowers wilting on her Laura Ashley skirt, wondering if such untidiness would affront the students.
Fiction book (2002) -
She could not be comfortable with untidiness and, indeed, in the years before with Willard, she had never encountered it in Rushby's.
Fiction book (1994) -
I haven't actually cleaned this or anything, so please excuse the untidiness of it if it is untidy.
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There was a casual untidiness, as of a place that is the center of life in a house: a shawl laid down, an open book, a pile of playbills, and a script on a side table, cushions in a heap, disordered.
Fiction book (1993) -
The untidiness in his room made it hard to find anything he needed.
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Her desk was filled with papers, revealing a clear untidiness.
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He realized that the untidiness of the living room gave a bad impression to his guests.
Synonyms
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3.6
Things left around in an untidy way
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4.6
A state when things are untidy, especially hair or clothes
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3.8
A lack of order or system that makes things untidy
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3.7
Careless, untidy behaviour that shows little attention to detail
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1.6
A situation when things are untidy and hard to find
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8.3
Being untidy, dirty, and careless about clothes or work
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7.2
An untidy, messy look of hair, clothes, or a room
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4.5
A messy, untidy look or way of dressing that seems careless
A state of being messy and untidy
A lack of order that makes places or things messy
A state when things are untidy and not cared for
Antonyms
How Tidy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Untidiness is made of un- ('not'), tidy ('neat', as in tidy up), and -ness ('the state of'). So untidiness means 'the state of not being neat', like a room with clothes and papers everywhere.