noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being untidy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
untidiness
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noun
Meaning 2
the trait of being untidy and messy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: messiness
Antonyms: tidiness
Broader terms: uncleanliness
Narrower terms: disarray, disorderliness
noun
Meaning 3
the condition of being untidy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: tidiness
Broader terms: disorderliness, disorder
Narrower terms: sloppiness, slovenliness, unkemptness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English untidy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English untidiness From untidy + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: безпорядък (bezporjadǎk) — the quality of being untidy
- Dalmatian: desorden — the quality of being untidy
- Dutch: slordigheid — the quality of being untidy
- Georgian: უსუფთაობა (usuptaoba) — the quality of being untidy
- German: Schlamperei — the quality of being untidy
- Greek: ατσαλιά (atsaliá) — the quality of being untidy
- Hungarian: rendetlenség — the quality of being untidy
- Irish: liopastacht — the quality of being untidy
- Irish: amscaíocht — the quality of being untidy
- Italian: disordine — the quality of being untidy
- Italian: sciatteria — the quality of being untidy
- Italian: sciattezza — the quality of being untidy
- Latin: immunditia — the quality of being untidy
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rot — the quality of being untidy
- Polish: nieporządek — the quality of being untidy
- Polish: nieład — the quality of being untidy
- Russian: беспоря́док (besporjádok) — the quality of being untidy
- Russian: сви́нство (svínstvo) — the quality of being untidy
- Scottish Gaelic: mì-chruinnealas — the quality of being untidy
- Serbo-Croatian: не̏уредно̄ст — the quality of being untidy
- Serbo-Croatian: nȅurednōst — the quality of being untidy
- Spanish: desaseo — the quality of being untidy