name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
clutter
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/
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US: /ˈklʌtɚ/
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US: [ˈklʌɾɚ]
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rhymes with -ʌtə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: K L AH1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A confused disordered jumble of things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable
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noun
Meaning 5
Clatter; confused noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Examples
- October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison
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noun
Meaning 6
A Sperner family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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verb
Meaning 7
To fill something with clutter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To clot or coagulate, like blood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 9
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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noun
Meaning 11
unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: radar echo, noise, interference, disturbance
noun
Meaning 12
a confused multitude of things
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disorderliness, disorder
Narrower terms: rummage
verb
Meaning 13
fill a space in a disorderly way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clutter up
Antonyms: unclutter
Broader terms: fill, fill up, make full
History
Etymology
From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).
Across languages
Translations
70 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: врява (vrjava) — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Bulgarian: бъркотия (bǎrkotija) — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Chinese Mandarin: 雜亂 /杂乱 (záluàn) — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Dutch: rommel — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Dutch: rotzooi — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Finnish: sotku — a confused disordered jumble of things
- French: bric-à-brac — a confused disordered jumble of things
- French: bordel — a confused disordered jumble of things
- French: encombrement — a confused disordered jumble of things
- German: Unordnung — a confused disordered jumble of things
- German: Wirrwarr — a confused disordered jumble of things
- German: Durcheinander — a confused disordered jumble of things
- German: Verwirrung — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Greek: αταξία (ataxía) — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Greek: σύγχυση (sýnchysi) — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Hungarian: zűrzavar — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Hungarian: összevisszaság — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Hungarian: rendetlenség — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Hungarian: felfordulás — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Hungarian: egymás hegyén-hátán — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Italian: confusione — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Italian: disordine — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Italian: scompiglio — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Portuguese: bagunça — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Portuguese: desordem — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Russian: беспоря́док (besporjádok) — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Russian: кутерьма́ (kuterʹmá) — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: desorden — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: revoltijo — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: enredo — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: desbarajuste — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: atiborramiento — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: batiburrillo — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: revoltillo — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: tótum revolútum — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: zaperoco — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: desgarriate — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: desgarreate — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: chacuatol — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Spanish: revoltura — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Swedish: röra — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Swedish: stök — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Turkish: dağınıklık — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Turkish: kargaşalık — a confused disordered jumble of things
- Finnish: välke — background echos
- Hungarian: visszaverődés — background echos
- Russian: поме́хи (poméxi) — background echos
- Bulgarian: вдигам шум (vdigam šum) — to fill something with clutter
- Chinese Mandarin: 亂堆 /乱堆 (luànduī) — to fill something with clutter
- Finnish: sotkea — to fill something with clutter
- Finnish: sekoittaa — to fill something with clutter
- French: encombrer — to fill something with clutter
- German: anhäufen — to fill something with clutter
- German: überhäufen — to fill something with clutter
- German: überladen — to fill something with clutter
- German: verwirren — to fill something with clutter
- Russian: захламля́ть (zaxlamljátʹ) — to fill something with clutter
- Russian: загроможда́ть (zagromoždátʹ) — to fill something with clutter
- Spanish: atestar — to fill something with clutter
- Spanish: abarrotar — to fill something with clutter
- Spanish: atiborrar — to fill something with clutter
- Spanish: desordenar — to fill something with clutter
- Spanish: desbarajustar — to fill something with clutter
- Swedish: stöka — to fill something with clutter
- Swedish: röra — to fill something with clutter
- Turkish: darmadağınık etmek — to fill something with clutter
- Turkish: tıkabasa doldurmak — to fill something with clutter
- Turkish: yığmak — to fill something with clutter
- German: poltern — to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder
- Hungarian: hadar — to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder