messy

Definition

In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.

Etymology

From mess + -y.

Example Sentences

• "a messy office"
• "Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair."
• "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory."