disorganising

Throwing into disarray

Disorganising is the British spelling of disorganizing—disrupting order or structure, throwing into confusion.

Someone disorganising a filing system scatters what was once arranged.

A strike disorganises production.

The word implies undoing existing organization rather than simply failing to create it: The merger had a disorganising effect on both companies.

systems

dismantling

Taking apart systematically

decentralising · disbanding · derailing · sabotaging · disrupting · collapsing · breaking · dissolving · scattering · dispersing

chaos

cluttering

Disorganizing with excess items

scrambling · disheveling · shuffling · mixing · confusing · disordering · messing · unsettling · disrupting · deranging

planning

derailing

Going off course

confusing · complicating · bungling · mismanaging · neglecting · overlooking · forgetting · muddling · botching · fumbling

Opposites
order and structure

disorganisingorganising

Structuring into order

organizing · ordering · arranging · systematising · tidying

coordination and planning

disorganisingcoordinating

Arranging for unified action

planning · unifying · consolidating · harmonising · integrating

Family

organ, organic, disorganized, reorganize, organism, reorganized, disorganize, unorganized, organisation

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