Definitions for messy
ˈmɛs imessy

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1. messy, mussyadjective

   dirty and disorderly

   "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

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1. messyadjective

   in a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.

   a messy office

2. messyadjective

   prone to causing mess.

   He is the messiest person I've ever met.

3. messyadjective

   difficult or unpleasant to deal with

   a messy divorce

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1. messy

   Messy pertains to a state or condition of disorder, untidiness, or disarray. It refers to a lack of neatness or order, be it in a physical space like a room, a process, or even abstract things such as an situation or plan. The term can also describe situations or problems that are complicated, difficult to deal with, or full of confusion.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of messy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of messy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of messy in a Sentence

1. Richard Forno:

   The American democracy is messy.

2. Craig Robinson:

   They have been in existence for quite a while, long before Carson even started showing up in the state. That longevity gives them an advantage, because for a long time, it was people's only way to contact anyone in the Carson orbit, so people are used to dealing with them, i think the big problem is that campaign is going to be in the dark about what the PAC is doing. For example, does the PAC have someone lined up to speak at my caucus or does the campaign? What if there are two people who think they are going to do it, or worse, nobody? Caucus campaigns require a lot of attention to detail, so extra hands in the kitchen on caucus night could make things messy in a hurry.

3. Justin Danhof:

   They all had contracts, right? It can get very messy and very sticky because when you see, like, this person's going to get a $9 million payout, but this [other] person isn't going to get anything, that creates a lot of discrepancies.

4. Dave Nussbaum:

   I believe the paper will go on to be a landmark study of how social influence works in a naturalistic environment — to date a huge proportion of the research on these questions has been done in controlled laboratory settings, so the fact that the effects are this strong in a messy environment like a school (and that their sample size was over 24,000 students) is truly impressive.

5. Kelly Armstrong:

   Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=messy
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Messy
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=messy