'Mess' definitions:
Definition of 'mess'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness]
noun
Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish]
noun
Soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
noun
A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
noun
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax [syn: mess, mess hall]
noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
verb
Eat in a mess hall
verb
Make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" [syn: mess, mess up]
Definition of 'Mess'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Mess'
From: GCIDE
- Mess \Mess\, v. t.
- 1. To supply with a mess. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make a mess[5] of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- It was n't right either to be messing another man's sleep. --Scribner's Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Mess'
From: GCIDE
- Mess \Mess\ (m[e^]s), n. Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mess'
From: GCIDE
- Mess \Mess\ (m[e^]s), n. [OE. mes, OF. mets, LL. missum, p. p. of mittere to put, place (e. g., on the table), L. mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Mass religious service.]
- 1. A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time. [1913 Webster]
- At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. [Perh. corrupt. fr. OE. mesh for mash: cf. muss.] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'mess'
From: Easton
- Mess a portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8).
Synonyms of 'mess'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all sorts,
- allotment,
- allowance,
- amount,
- arsy-varsiness,
- assemblage,
- assortment,
- baboon,
- bad job,
- bag,
- batch,
- befoul,
- befuddlement,
- benasty,
- bevue,
- bewilderment,
- big end,
- bigger half,
- bind,
- bit,
- bitch up,
- bite,
- blemish,
- blot,
- blow,
- blunder,
- board,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- bollix,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- botch,
- botchery,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bread,
- broad spectrum,
- budget,
- bunch,
- bungle,
- butt in,
- C ration,
- cafeteria,
- can of worms,
- carrion,
- chaos,
- Chinese puzzle,
- chunk,
- cloud,
- clump,
- clumsy performance,
- cluster,
- clutch,
- clutter,
- commission,
- commons,
- complex,
- complication,
- concoction,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- conglomeration,
- considerable,
- contaminate,
- contingent,
- copse,
- corrupt,
- corruption,
- count,
- crop,
- crunch,
- cut,
- dally,
- dandruff,
- daze,
- deal,
- decay,
- defile,
- derange,
- destiny,
- destroy,
- difficulty,
- dilemma,
- dine,
- dinette,
- dining car,
- dining hall,
- dining room,
- dining saloon,
- dirty,
- disarrange,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertion,
- dishevel,
- dislocate,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorientation,
- disturbance,
- dividend,
- dog,
- dole,
- doodle,
- dose,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- emergency rations,
- end,
- entertainment,
- equal share,
- error,
- etourderie,
- excrement,
- eyesore,
- farrago,
- fate,
- feed,
- fiasco,
- field rations,
- filth,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fix,
- flirt,
- flub,
- fluff,
- flummox,
- flunk,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fodder,
- fog,
- fool around,
- foozle,
- forage,
- foul,
- foul matter,
- foul up,
- foul-up,
- frenzy,
- fright,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fumble,
- furfur,
- gallimaufry,
- gangrene,
- gargoyle,
- gaucherie,
- gob,
- gobs,
- good deal,
- goof up,
- Gordian knot,
- grass,
- gratify,
- graze,
- great deal,
- group,
- grouping,
- groupment,
- grove,
- gum up,
- hag,
- half,
- halver,
- harridan,
- hash,
- hassock,
- haze,
- heap,
- heaps,
- hell to pay,
- helping,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hobble,
- hodgepodge,
- hot water,
- hotchpot,
- hotchpotch,
- how-do-you-do,
- hunk,
- hysteron proteron,
- imbroglio,
- infect,
- interest,
- interfere with,
- intervene,
- jam,
- jumble,
- jungle,
- K ration,
- kettle of fish,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- large amount,
- lashings,
- litter,
- loads,
- lot,
- lots,
- louse up,
- lump,
- magpie,
- mash,
- mass,
- maze,
- meal,
- meals,
- meander,
- measure,
- meat,
- meddle with,
- medley,
- meed,
- melange,
- mesh,
- mess around,
- mess hall,
- mess up,
- mess with,
- messroom,
- mingle-mangle,
- mint,
- misarrange,
- miscellany,
- miscue,
- mishmash,
- mist,
- mistake,
- mix,
- mix-up,
- mixed bag,
- mixture,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- monster,
- monstrosity,
- morass,
- much,
- muck,
- muck up,
- mucus,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- muff,
- mull,
- muss,
- muss up,
- nasty,
- no beauty,
- number,
- obscenity,
- odds and ends,
- off day,
- olio,
- olla podrida,
- omnium-gatherum,
- oodles,
- ordure,
- pack,
- parcel,
- parlous straits,
- part,
- pass,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pasture,
- patchwork,
- peck,
- percentage,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- philander,
- pickle,
- piece,
- pile,
- piles,
- pinch,
- play,
- plight,
- pollute,
- portion,
- pot,
- pother,
- potpourri,
- potter,
- power,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- proportion,
- provision,
- pucker,
- puddle,
- pull to pieces,
- pus,
- putrid matter,
- putter,
- quagmire,
- quandary,
- quantity,
- quantum,
- quicksand,
- quite a little,
- quota,
- raft,
- rafts,
- rake-off,
- ration,
- rations,
- ravel,
- refection,
- refectory,
- refreshment,
- regale,
- regalement,
- repas,
- repast,
- restaurant,
- rot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- ruffle,
- ruin,
- rumple,
- run around,
- sad work,
- salad,
- salle a manger,
- salmagundi,
- satisfy,
- sauce,
- scads,
- scarecrow,
- scatter,
- scramble,
- scrape,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- scurf,
- scuz,
- seduce,
- segment,
- shambles,
- share,
- shock,
- short commons,
- shuffle,
- sight,
- sleep around,
- slew,
- slews,
- slice,
- slime,
- slip,
- slough,
- small amount,
- small share,
- smorgasbord,
- smut,
- snafu,
- snake pit,
- snarl,
- snot,
- sordes,
- spate,
- spot,
- spread,
- squeeze,
- stack,
- stacks,
- stake,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- stock,
- stook,
- strait,
- straits,
- stumble,
- sully,
- sum,
- sustain,
- swamp,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- table,
- taint,
- tamper with,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- tarnish,
- teratism,
- thicket,
- tidy sum,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tinker,
- tizzy,
- topsy-turviness,
- topsy-turvydom,
- tousle,
- toy,
- treat,
- tricky spot,
- trifle,
- trip,
- trouble,
- tucker,
- tuft,
- tumble,
- turmoil,
- turn upside down,
- tussock,
- ugly duckling,
- unholy mess,
- unsettlement,
- untidiness,
- upset,
- wad,
- wads,
- washout,
- webwork,
- welter,
- what you will,
- wheels within wheels,
- whole slew,
- wilderness,
- wine and dine,
- wisp,
- witch,
- wreck,
- wreckage