untidy
adjective/ʌnˈtaɪdi/
/ʌnˈtaɪdi/
(comparative untidier, superlative untidiest)
- not neat or well arranged; not in order
- an untidy desk
- untidy hair
Extra Examples- Everything was dreadfully untidy.
- I'm afraid the house will have to stay untidy for now.
- My son had left the studio very untidy.
- The books were piled an untidy heap.
- Try not to make the place untidy.
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- (of a person) not keeping things neat or well organized
- Why do you have to be so untidy?
- I've become more untidy since I stopped going out to work.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
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