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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. undisciplined and unruly;
- Example: "disorderly youths"
- Example: "disorderly conduct"

2. in utter disorder;
- Example: "a disorderly pile of clothes"
[syn: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy]

3. completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing;
[syn: chaotic, disorderly]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disorderly \Dis*or"der*ly\, adv. In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. [1913 Webster] Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. --2 Thess. iii. 6. [1913 Webster] Savages fighting disorderly with stones. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disorderly \Dis*or"der*ly\, a. 1. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state. [1913 Webster] 2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind. [1913 Webster] 3. Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies. [1913 Webster] 4. (Law) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn: Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disorderly adj 1: undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct" [ant: orderly] 2: in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy] 3: completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn: chaotic, disorderly]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

166 Moby Thesaurus words for "disorderly": amiss, amorphic, amorphous, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian, askew, awry, bad, baggy, blobby, blurred, blurry, boisterous, capricious, changeable, changing, chaotic, characterless, choppy, cluttered, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disobedient, disordered, disorganized, disruptive, disturbed, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, featureless, formless, fuzzy, haphazard, haywire, hazy, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, improper, impulsive, in disarray, in disorder, inchoate, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inform, intractable, irregular, jagged, jerky, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, lawless, lumpen, mercurial, messy, misbehaving, misplaced, misty, motley, muddled, mutable, mutinous, naughty, nihilistic, noisy, nonconformist, nondescript, nonstandard, nonuniform, not respectable, obscure, obstreperous, off-base, on the fritz, orderless, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, out-of-line, pell-mell, perturbed, pluralistic, ragged, rampant, raucous, rebellious, refractory, revolutionary, riotous, roily, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rumbustious, scrambled, shapeless, shuffled, spasmodic, sporadic, syndicalistic, termagant, terrorist, topsy-turvy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, unbehaving, unbridled, unclear, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undefined, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unordered, unorganized, unorthodox, unrestrained, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, upset, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, violent, wavering, wild