mess

mess
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ absolute, complete, fine (esp. AmE), hopeless, real, royal (esp. AmE), total, utter
▪

I got myself into a complete mess.

▪ entire, whole
▪

You started this entire mess!

▪ appalling (BrE), awful, horrible, nasty, stupid, terrible, ugly, unholy
▪ big, giant, huge
▪

The whole situation is a giant mess.

▪

I'm in a huge mess. I don't know what to do.

▪ complicated, confusing, incoherent
▪

The plot is an incoherent mess.

▪ chaotic
▪ jumbled, muddled (esp. AmE), tangled, untidy (BrE)
▪

Her hair was a tangled mess.

▪ bloody, disgusting, gooey, muddy, slimy, sloppy, soggy, sticky
▪

Soon both fighters were a bloody mess of flying punches.

▪

Why don't you clean up this disgusting mess?

▪ emotional
▪

He's been an emotional mess since his girlfriend left him.

▪ economic, financial
VERB + MESS
▪ leave, make
▪

Must you always leave such a mess?

▪

She felt she was making a terrible mess of her life.

▪ clean up, clear up, tidy up (esp. BrE), wipe up
▪ look (BrE), look like (esp. AmE)
▪ become
▪

My life's becoming a big mess.

▪ get (sb) into, get (sb) out of
▪

Who got us into this mess in the first place?

▪ cause, create, start
▪

That was what caused this whole mess in the first place.

▪ deal with, fix (AmE), resolve, sort out, straighten out
▪

I have to try to fix the mess you caused.

PREPOSITION
▪ in a mess
▪

The kitchen's in an awful mess.

▪

We found ourselves in a real mess.

▪ mess of
▪

She searched through the mess of papers on her desk. (esp. AmE)

PHRASES
▪ make a mess of things
▪

I've really made a mess of things!


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