Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

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].