adjective (messier, messiest)
1 dirty and/or untidy:
The house was always messy. * The children got really messy playing in the woods.
2 making sb/sth dirty and/or untidy:
It was a messy job.
3 (of a situation) unpleasant, confused or difficult to deal with:
The divorce was painful and messy.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for messy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does messy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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