adj
Meaning 1
Lacking order or organization; confused; chaotic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
disorganized
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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Received-Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɔːɡənaɪzd/
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adj
Meaning 2
Lacking skills for organizing one's affairs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He is quite disorganized and has difficulty planning his day or remembering when his homework is due.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
In a state of disruption of orderly psychological functioning; engaging in behavior that is chaotic, self-contradictory, or out of keeping with reality; (of a mental illness) poorly controlled and leading to a disorganized state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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verb
Meaning 4
simple past and past participle of disorganize
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective
Meaning 5
lacking order or methodical arrangement or function
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a disorganized enterprise
- a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose
- she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disorganised
Antonyms: organized
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: desorganitzat — lacking order
- Dutch: ongeorganiseerd — lacking order
- Esperanto: malorda — lacking order
- Finnish: sekava — lacking order
- Finnish: sekaisin oleva — lacking order
- Finnish: epäjärjestelmällinen — lacking order
- Finnish: järjestämätön — lacking order
- French: désorganisé — lacking order
- Galician: desorganizado — lacking order
- Georgian: არაორგანიზებული (araorganizebuli) — lacking order
- Georgian: დისორგანიზებული (disorganizebuli) — lacking order
- Georgian: არეული (areuli) — lacking order
- Georgian: უწესრიგო (uc̣esrigo) — lacking order
- German: unorganisiert — lacking order
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 (ungatass) — lacking order
- Hindi: अस्त-व्यस्त (ast-vyast) — lacking order
- Hindi: अव्यवस्थित (avyavasthit) — lacking order
- Hindi: असंगठित (asaṅgṭhit) — lacking order
- Italian: disorganizzato — lacking order
- Latin: inconditus — lacking order
- Latin: incompositus — lacking order
- Māori: tautauāmoa — lacking order
- Māori: kaumingomingo — lacking order
- Māori: kūnakunaku — lacking order
- Māori: tīraurau — lacking order
- Māori: kōhangaweka — lacking order
- Polish: niezorganizowany — lacking order
- Romanian: dezorganizat — lacking order
- Romanian: neorganizat — lacking order
- Spanish: desorganizado — lacking order
- Swedish: oorganiserad — lacking order
- Turkish: dezorganize — lacking order
- Turkish: düzensiz — lacking order
- Welsh: anhrefnus — lacking order