Disorder (Absence, or want of Order, c)
Nouns
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disorder
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derangement etc. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement
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irregularity
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anomaly etc. (unconformity) Unconformity
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anarchy, anarchism
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want of method
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untidiness etc. adj.
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disunion
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discord etc. Disagreement. confusion
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confusedness etc. adj.
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mishmash, mix
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disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber
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cahotage
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farrago
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mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge
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hotch-potch, hotch-pot
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imbroglio, chaos, medley
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mere mixture etc. [Forming a whole without coherence.] Mixture
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fortuitous concourse of atoms
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ferment etc. (agitation) [Irregular motion] Agitation
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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
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whirlwind etc. [Air in motion] Wind
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bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder
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Bedlam, all hell broke loose
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bull in a china shop
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all the fat in the fire, Devil to pay
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pretty kettle of fish
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disorderly persons offence
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misdemeanor. [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) Libertine.
Adjectives
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disorderly, orderless
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out of order, out of place, out of gear
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irregular, desultory
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anomalous etc. (unconformable) Unconformity
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acephalous, deranged
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aimless
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disorganized
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straggling
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unmethodical, immethodical
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unsymmetric, unsystematic
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untidy, slovenly
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dislocated
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out of sorts
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promiscuous, indiscriminate
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chaotic, anarchical
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unarranged etc. (arrange) etc. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement
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confused
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deranged etc. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement
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topsy-turvy etc. (inverted) Inversion
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shapeless etc. [Absence of form.] Amorphism
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disjointed, out of joint. troublous
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riotous etc. (violent) Existence73-violence">Violence. complex etc. [Absence, or want of Order, etc.] Disorder.1.
Adverbs
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irregularly etc. adj.
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by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts
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pellmell
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higgledy-piggledy
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helter-skelter, harum-scarum
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in a ferment
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at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes
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upside down etc. Inversion.
Phrases
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the cart before the horse
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chaos is come again
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the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" [Addison].