noun |
adj |
verb |
adv |
(noun) mess hall
a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
(noun) batch, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, passel, tidy sum, deal, spate, sight, slew, stack, heap, hatful, good deal, great deal, wad, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, lot, mass, mickle, flock
(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
(noun) pickle, hole, muddle, jam, kettle of fish, fix
informal terms for a difficult situation
he got into a terrible fix; he made a muddle of his marriage
(noun) muss, mussiness, messiness
a state of confusion and disorderliness
the house was a mess; she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
(verb) mess up
make a mess of or create disorder in
He messed up his room