N. disorder,
derangement,
irregularity,
anomaly,
anarchy,
anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness,
mishmash,
mix,
disarray,
jumble,
huddle,
litter,
lumber, cahotage,
farrago,
mess,
mash,
muddle,
muss,
hash,
hodgepodge,
hotch-potch,
hotch-pot,
imbroglio,
chaos, omnium gatherum,
medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles,
complexity,
turmoil,
ferment,
to-do, trouble,
pudder,
pother, row,
rumble, disturbance,
hubbub,
convulsion,
tumult,
uproar, revolution,
riot,
rumpus,
stour,
scramble,
brawl,
fracas,
rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row,
ruction,
rumpus,
embroilment,
melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble,
whirlwind, bear garden,
babel,
saturnalia, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors,
bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence,
misdemeanor,
slattern, slut (libertine) 962
Adj. disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular,
desultory,
anomalous,
acephalous,
deranged, aimless, disorganized,
straggling, unmethodical,
immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic,
untidy,
slovenly,
dislocated, out of sorts,
promiscuous,
indiscriminate,
chaotic,
anarchical, unarranged &c. (see arrange ), confused,
deranged,
topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint,
troublous,
riotous, complex
Adv. irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts,
pellmell,
higgledy-piggledy,
helter-skelter,
harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down
Phr. the cart before the horse, ὔστερον πρότερον, chaos is come again, "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds"
N. derangement, disorder,
evection,
discomposure, disturbance, disorganization, deorganization,
dislocation,
perturbation,
interruption,
shuffling, inversion,
corrugation, involvement,
interchange V. derange, disarrange, misarrange, displace, misplace, mislay,
discompose, disorder, deorganize, discombobulate,
disorganize,
embroil, unsettle,
disturb,
confuse, trouble,
perturb,
jumble,
tumble,
shuffle, randomize,
huddle,
muddle,
toss,
hustle,
fumble,
riot, bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder,
muss, break the ranks,
disconcert,
convulse, break in upon,
unhinge,
dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear, turn topsy-turvy,
bedevil,
complicate, involve,
perplex,
confound,
imbrangle,
embrangle,
tangle,
entangle,
ravel,
tousle, towzle,
dishevel,
ruffle,
rumple,
litter,
scatter,
mix, rearrange
N. inattention, inconsideration,
inconsiderateness, oversight,
inadvertence,
inadvertency,
nonobservance, disregard,
supineness, etourderie, want of thought,
heedlessness,
insouciance,
abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction,
reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction
V. be inattentive, overlook, disregard, pass by not observe, think little of, close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to, pay no attention to, dismiss from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from one's mind, drop the subject, think no more of, set aside, turn aside, put aside, turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon, abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie, escape notice, escape attention, come in at one ear and go out at the other,
forget, call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind, put out of one's head,
disconcert,
discompose, put out,
confuse,
perplex,
bewilder,
moider,
fluster,
muddle,
dazzle, throw a sop to cerberus
Adj. inattentive,
unobservant, unmindful,
heedless, unthinking,
unheeding,
undiscerning,
inadvertent, mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind,
deaf, bird- witted, hand over head,
cursory,
percursory,
giddy-brained, scatter- brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele,
offhand,
dizzy,
muzzy,
brainsick,
giddy, giddy as a goose, wild,
harum-scarum,
rantipole,
highflying,
heedless, careless,
inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted,
distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought,
rapt, in the clouds,
bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied,
engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard,
napping,
dreamy, caught napping,
disconcerted, distracted, put out
Int. stand at ease, stand easy, phr, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you, 129
N. absurdity,
absurdness,
imbecility, alogy|, nonsense, utter nonsense,
paradox,
inconsistency,
stultiloquy,
stultiloquence,
nugacity,
blunder,
muddle, bull, irishism|, hibernicism|,
slipslop,
anticlimax,
bathos,
sophism,
farce, galimathias, amphigouri,
rhapsody,
farrago, betise,
extravagance, romance,
sciamachy, sell,
pun, verbal quibble,
macaronic,
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish,
exaggeration,
moonshine, stuff, mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion,
vagary,
tomfoolery, poppycock,
mummery, monkey trick,
boutade,
escapade V. play the fool, talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess, battre la campagne, ἀνεμώλια βάζειν be -absurd
Adj. absurd,
nonsensical,
preposterous,
egregious, senseless, inconsistent,
ridiculous,
extravagant,
quibbling, self-annulling, self- contradictory,
macaronic,
punning,
foolish,
sophistical, unmeaning, without rhyme or reason,
fantastic Phr. credat judaeus apella, tell it to the marines, faculties
Int. fiddlededee,
pish, pho, "in the name of the prophet—figs!"
