Definitions for messy

messy mess·y

Spelling: [mes-ee]
IPA: /ˈmɛs i/

Messy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in messy (emssy).

Definitions for messy

adjective

  1. characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
  2. causing a mess:
  3. embarrassing, difficult, or unpleasant:
  4. characterized by moral or psychological confusion.

Origin of messy

First recorded in 1835-45; mess + -y1

Examples for messy

Their inevitable divorce was messy, bitter, and packed with bizarre occurrences.

THE NEW YORK TIMES/JILL ABRAMSON DISASTER: It was messy enough when, on May 14, New York Times Co.

Sorry to sacrifice you, honey, but the other way is just too messy.

It's much better you didn't recognise us; these boiler explosions are so messy.

Thousands of other planets will gain the settlers that messy Row loses.

And if he's at all messy about it, I give you leave to roll him downstairs.

But there is a messy middle territory between demonization and idealization.

In another, they sit smiling inside their Los Angeles apartment at a messy kitchen table.

That was messy; but we wanted to be hospitable, so we didn't say anything.

If you think divorce between two people is messy and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.

Word Value for messy
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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