'Disorder' definitions:
Definition of 'disorder'
From: WordNet
noun
A physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" [syn: disorder, upset]
noun
A condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" [syn: disorderliness, disorder] [ant: order, orderliness]
noun
A disturbance of the peace or of public order [ant: order]
verb
Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill" [syn: perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder]
verb
Definition of 'Disorder'
From: GCIDE
- Disorder \Dis*or"der\, n. [Pref. dis- + order: cf. F. d['e]sordre.]
- 1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. [1913 Webster]
- From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy or of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." --Locke.
- Syn: Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle; disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness; ailment; malady; distemper. See Disease. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disorder'
From: GCIDE
- Disorder \Dis*or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disordered; p. pr. & vb. n. Disordering.]
- 1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse. [1913 Webster]
- Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach. [1913 Webster]
- A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] --Dryden.
- Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disorder'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- affray,
- agitation,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- aloofness,
- amorphia,
- amorphism,
- amorphousness,
- anarchism,
- anarcho-syndicalism,
- anarchy,
- anomie,
- antinomianism,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- badness,
- ball up,
- battle,
- battle royal,
- bedlam,
- befuddle,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- blobbiness,
- blur,
- blurriness,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- bother,
- botheration,
- brawl,
- broadness,
- brouhaha,
- bustle,
- capriciousness,
- cardiovascular disease,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- chaos,
- choppiness,
- chronic disease,
- churn,
- circulatory disease,
- civil disorder,
- clamor,
- cloud,
- clutter,
- commotion,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- congenital defect,
- conturbation,
- convulsion,
- criminal syndicalism,
- dappleness,
- daze,
- debilitate,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deform,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- derange,
- derangement,
- deviation,
- devitalize,
- difference,
- differentiation,
- diffusion,
- disability,
- disable,
- disarrange,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcertion,
- discontinuity,
- discourtesy,
- discreteness,
- disease,
- dishevel,
- disjoint,
- disjunction,
- dislocate,
- dislocation,
- disorderliness,
- disorderly conduct,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorientation,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disrupt,
- disruption,
- disruptiveness,
- dissolution,
- distemper,
- distort,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- ebullition,
- embarrassment,
- embroil,
- embroilment,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- entropy,
- epidemic disease,
- excitement,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- fight,
- flap,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteration,
- fog,
- fog up,
- fogginess,
- foment,
- formlessness,
- fracas,
- fray,
- free-for-all,
- frenzy,
- frowned-upon behavior,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fume,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- fuss,
- fuzziness,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- generality,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- hash,
- haze,
- haziness,
- hereditary disease,
- hooliganism,
- horseplay,
- hospitalize,
- hubbub,
- huddle,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly-burly,
- iatrogenic disease,
- ill,
- ill-definedness,
- illness,
- imprecision,
- impropriety,
- inaccuracy,
- incapacitate,
- inchoateness,
- incoherence,
- inconsistency,
- inconstancy,
- indecisiveness,
- indefinableness,
- indefiniteness,
- indeterminateness,
- indispose,
- indisposition,
- inequality,
- inexactness,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- inquietude,
- insanity,
- instability,
- invalid,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- jitters,
- jumble,
- jumpiness,
- knock galley-west,
- laxity,
- lay up,
- litter,
- looseness,
- lynch law,
- maelstrom,
- malady,
- malaise,
- maze,
- melee,
- mercuriality,
- mess,
- mess up,
- messiness,
- misarrange,
- misarrangement,
- misbehavior,
- misconduct,
- misdemeanor,
- misdoing,
- mishmash,
- misrule,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- mix up,
- mob law,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- moil,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- motleyness,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- muscular disease,
- muss,
- muss up,
- mutability,
- naughtiness,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- neurological disease,
- nihilism,
- nonadhesion,
- noncohesion,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonsanctioned behavior,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniformity,
- nutritional disease,
- obfuscate,
- obscuration,
- obscure,
- obscurity,
- occupational disease,
- ochlocracy,
- orderlessness,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pandemonium,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- perplexity,
- perturb,
- perturbation,
- plant disease,
- pluralism,
- pother,
- primal chaos,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- pucker,
- raggedness,
- rebellion,
- reduce,
- respiratory disease,
- restlessness,
- revolution,
- riot,
- rockiness,
- roil,
- roughhouse,
- rout,
- row,
- rowdiness,
- rowdyism,
- ruffianism,
- ruffle,
- rummage,
- rumple,
- rumpus,
- scatter,
- scattering,
- scramble,
- scuffle,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- seethe,
- seething,
- separateness,
- shake up,
- shambles,
- shapelessness,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sicken,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- snarl,
- stew,
- stir,
- sweat,
- sweepingness,
- swirl,
- swivet,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndicalism,
- syndrome,
- tangle,
- the pip,
- tizzy,
- to-do,
- tohubohu,
- topsy-turviness,
- tousle,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tumble,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- turn,
- twitter,
- unadherence,
- unadhesiveness,
- unclearness,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- unease,
- unevenness,
- unform,
- unhinge,
- unorthodoxy,
- unrest,
- unruliness,
- unsettle,
- unsettlement,
- unshape,
- unsteadiness,
- untenacity,
- untidiness,
- upheaval,
- uproar,
- upset,
- urogenital disease,
- vagueness,
- vandalism,
- variability,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variousness,
- venial sin,
- versatility,
- vice,
- violence,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- wavering,
- weaken,
- worm disease,
- wrongdoing
Words containing 'Disorder'
- Disord,
- Disordered,
- Disorderedly,
- Disordering,
- Disorderly,
- affective disorder,
- anxiety disorder,
- autoimmune disorder,
- bipolar disorder,
- bladder disorder,
- blood disorder,
- brain disorder,
- chromosonal disorder,
- congenital disorder,
- conversion disorder,
- cyclic disorder,
- cyclothymic disorder,
- degenerative disorder,
- delusional disorder,
- depersonalisation disorder,
- depersonalization disorder,
- depressive disorder,
- disorderly behavior,
- disorderly conduct,
- dissociative disorder,
- eating disorder,
- emotional disorder,
- functional disorder,
- gastrointestinal disorder,
- genetic disorder,
- glandular disorder,
- hearing disorder,
- idiopathic disorder,
- immunological disorder,
- inherited disorder,
- learning disorder,
- manic disorder,
- mental disorder,
- metabolic disorder,
- monogenic disorder,
- nervous disorder,
- neurological disorder,
- organic disorder,
- panic disorder,
- personality disorder,
- phobic disorder,
- polygenic disorder,
- psychological disorder,
- psychosomatic disorder,
- renal disorder,
- respiratory disorder,
- schizophrenic disorder,
- skin disorder,
- sleep disorder,
- speech disorder,
- spinocerebellar disorder,
- violent disorder,
- visual disorder,
- acute brain disorder,
- alcohol amnestic disorder,
- antisocial personality disorder,
- attention deficit disorder,
- autosomal dominant disorder,
- drunk-and-disorderly,
- generalized anxiety disorder,
- major affective disorder,
- posttraumatic stress disorder,
- seasonal affective disorder,
- sleep terror disorder,
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
- obsessive-compulsive disorder,
- sex-linked disorder