Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Order in General

Order

Nouns
  • order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry
  • music of the spheres. gradation, progression
  • series etc. (continuity) [Uninterrupted sequence.] Continuity. subordination
  • course, even tenor, routine
  • method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness etc. adj.. rank, place etc. (term) Term.
Verbs
  • be in order, become in order etc. adj.
  • form, fall in, draw up
  • arrange itself, range itself, place itself
  • fall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rank
  • rally round. adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
Adjectives
Adverbs
  • in order
  • methodically etc. adj.
  • in turn, in its turn
  • by steps, step by step
  • by regular steps, by regular gradations, by regular stages, by regular intervals
  • seriatim, systematically, by clockwork
  • at stated periods etc. (periodically) Periodicity [Regularity of recurrence].
Phrases
  • order is heaven's first law" [Pope]
  • order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]

Disorder (Absence, or want of Order, c)

Nouns
  • disorder
  • derangement etc. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement
  • irregularity
  • anomaly etc. (unconformity) Unconformity
  • anarchy, anarchism
  • want of method
  • untidiness etc. adj.
  • disunion
  • discord etc. Disagreement. confusion
  • confusedness etc. adj.
  • mishmash, mix
  • disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber
  • cahotage
  • farrago
  • mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge
  • hotch-potch, hotch-pot
  • imbroglio, chaos, medley
  • mere mixture etc. [Forming a whole without coherence.] Mixture
  • fortuitous concourse of atoms
  • ferment etc. (agitation) [Irregular motion] Agitation
  • 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 etc. [Air in motion] Wind
  • bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder
  • Bedlam, all hell broke loose
  • bull in a china shop
  • all the fat in the fire, Devil to pay
  • pretty kettle of fish
  • disorderly persons offence
  • misdemeanor. [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) Libertine.
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
  • irregularly etc. adj.
  • 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 etc. Inversion.
Phrases
  • the cart before the horse
  • chaos is come again
  • the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" [Addison].

Complexity

Nouns
  • complexity
  • complexness etc. adj.
  • complexus
  • complication, implication
  • intricacy, intrication
  • perplexity
  • network, labyrinth
  • wilderness, jungle
  • involution, raveling, entanglement
  • coil etc. (convolution) [Complex curvature.] Convolution
  • sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels
  • kink, gnarl, knarl
  • webwork. [complexity if a task or action] difficulty etc. Difficulty.
Verbs
  • complexify, complicate.
Adjectives
  • gnarled, knarled. complex, complexed
  • intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable
  • irreducible.

Arrangement (Reduction to Order)

Nouns
  • arrangement
  • plan etc. Plan
  • preparation etc. Preparation
  • disposal, disposition
  • collocation, allocation
  • distribution
  • sorting etc. v.
  • assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization
  • grouping
  • tabulation. analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion. [Result of arrangement] digest
  • synopsis etc. (compendium) Compendium
  • syntagma [Gramm.], table, atlas
  • file, database
  • register. etc. (record) Record
  • organism, architecture. [Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter.
Verbs
  • reduce to order, bring into order
  • introduce order into
  • rally. arrange, dispose, place, form
  • put in order, set in order, place in order
  • set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal
  • cast the parts, assign the parts
  • dispose of, assign places to
  • assort, sort
  • sift, riddle
  • put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array
  • apportion. class, classify
  • divide
  • file, string together, thread
  • register etc. (record) Record
  • catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade. methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix. unravel, disentangle, ravel, card
  • disembroil
  • feaze.
Adjectives
  • arranged etc. v.
  • embattled, in battle array
  • cut and dried
  • methodical, orderly, regular, systematic.
Phrases
  • In vast cumbrous array" [Churchill].

Derangement (Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder)

Nouns
Verbs
  • derange
  • disarrange, misarrange
  • displace, misplace
  • mislay, discompose, disorder
  • deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize
  • embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble
  • shuffle, randomize
  • huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot
  • bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder etc. [Absence, or want of Order, etc.] Disorder
  • muss [U.S.]
  • break the ranks, disconcert, convulse
  • break in upon. unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear. turn topsy-turvy etc. (invert) Inversion
  • bedevil
  • complicate, involve, perplex, confound
  • imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle
  • rumple etc. (fold) Fold. litter, scatter
  • mix etc. [Forming a whole without coherence.] Mixture. rearrange etc. [Double or mutual change.] Interchange.
Adjectives
  • deranged etc. v.
  • syncretic, syncretistic
  • mussy, messy
  • flaky
  • random, unordered [U.S.].