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disarray
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun disarray has 2 senses
- disarray(n = noun.cognition) confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness - a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; "a confusion of impressions" is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
- disarray(n = noun.attribute) disorderliness - untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance); Array is a kind of messiness, untidiness
has particulars: disorientation, distraction, daze, fog, haze, half-cock, jamais vu, bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement, perplexity
Derived form verb disarray1
Verb disarray has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
disarray, n. & v.
--n. (often prec. by in, into) disorder, confusion (esp. among people).
--v.tr. throw into disorder.
--n. (often prec. by in, into) disorder, confusion (esp. among people).
--v.tr. throw into disorder.
THESAURUS
disarray
ataxia, chaos, clutter, derange, derangement, disarrange, disarrangement, disarticulation, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevel, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislocate, dismantle, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorganize, disproportion, disrobe, disruption, disturb, disturbance, do a strip-tease, entropy, haphazardness, huddle, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, irregularity, jumble, litter, mess, mess up, misarrange, most admired disorder, muddle, muss, muss up, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, snarl, strip, topsy-turviness, tousle, turbulence, unarray, uncase, unclothe, undrape, undress, unsettle, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upsetROGET THESAURUS
disarray
Disorder
N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
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