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Adjective: disorderly  dis'or-du(r)-lee
  1. Undisciplined and unruly
    "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"
     
  2. In utter disorder
    "a disorderly pile of clothes";
    - higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy
     
  3. Completely unordered, unpredictable, and confusing
    - chaotic

See also: bare-knuckle, bare-knuckled, boisterous, mobbish, moblike, rambunctious [N. Amer], raucous, robustious, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, rumbustious [Brit], unruly, untidy, wild

Antonym: orderly

Nearest

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