disordered

1. 1
   adjective

   Messy and mixed up, with no clear order.

   Like a box of toys all thrown together with nothing in its right place.

   The room was disordered after the kids spent the afternoon playing.

   Years of neglect left the garden disordered and overgrown.

   Similarchaotic, disorganized, jumbled, messy, haphazard

   Oppositeorderly, organized, tidy, structured

2. 2
   adjective

   Put in the wrong order, not the way it should be.

   Like a deck of cards shuffled so the numbers are no longer in line.

   The pages came back disordered, with chapter three before chapter one.

   The cards were disordered, so the numbers no longer ran from one to ten.

   Similarjumbled, scrambled, muddled, disjointed, garbled

   Oppositesequential, orderly, chronological, coherent

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3. 3
   adjective

   Affected by an illness or condition that stops the body or mind from working normally.

   Like a machine with a part that no longer works the way it should.

   The doctor treated her disordered breathing with new medication.

   He finally got help for his disordered eating.

   Similarabnormal, dysfunctional, disturbed, irregular, disrupted

   Oppositenormal, healthy, regular

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4. 4
   adjective

   Not thinking clearly, mentally confused or troubled.

   Like a radio stuck between stations, with thoughts coming out broken and mixed.

   His disordered mind made it hard for him to follow a simple conversation.

   She spoke in a disordered way, mixing up names and dates.

   Similardisturbed, deranged, unbalanced, unhinged, troubled

   Oppositesane, rational, balanced, lucid

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5. 5
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of disorder. Use this form when the action already happened.

   The storm disordered the neat piles of paper on the porch.

   Someone disordered the books on the shelf while we were out.

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