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Synonyms of untidy in English:

untidy


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adjective

1‘Fran smoothed her untidy hair’

SYNONYMS
scruffy, tousled, dishevelled, unkempt, messy, disordered, disarranged, messed up, rumpled, bedraggled, uncombed, ungroomed, straggly, ruffled, tangled, matted, windblown, wild
frowzy, dirty, sleazy, seedy, slovenly, slatternly, sloppy
informal ratty, mussed up, slobbish, slobby
North American informal raggedy, schlumpy, raunchy
archaic draggle-tailed
ANTONYMS

tidy, neat

2‘the place was dreadfully untidy’

SYNONYMS
disordered, messy, in a mess, disorderly, disorganized, in disorder, in confusion, confused, cluttered, in a clutter, mixed up, in a muddle, muddled, in a jumble, jumbled, in chaos, chaotic, haywire, topsy-turvy, in disarray, awry, askew, upside down, upset, disrupted, at sixes and sevens
informal higgledy-piggledy, every which way
British informal shambolic, like a dog's breakfast, like a dog's dinner
ANTONYMS

tidy, orderly