Unscramble messes

Definition of mess

noun:

• a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess", "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed". Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness.
• informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix", "he made a muddle of his marriage". Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle.
• soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge".
• a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel.
• a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax. Synonyms: mess hall.
• (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". Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, 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.
• make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room". Synonyms: mess up.

Related words

deluge, flood, haymow, inundation, torrent.

Words nearby

fess, hess, less, mass, mesa, mesh, messy, mews, miss, moss, muss, ness, sess.

Rhymes with

abs, acquiesce, address, aggress, assess, bless, bs, caress, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cps, cress, depress, des, digress, dispossess, distress.