messy room

Disorder on display

A messy room is one that's cluttered, disorganized, or untidy—clothes on the floor, unmade bed, stuff everywhere.

The phrase is common in domestic contexts, especially when parents address children: Clean up this messy room before dinner.

A messy room suggests neglect of tidying rather than dirt or filth.

Related

laundry · dirty · scattered · piles · untidy · sloppy · dusty · clothes · floor · unmade · bed · junk · trash · hoarding · disaster · disaster area · pigpen · tornado

Categories
Opposites
orderliness and cleanliness

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Contamination-controlled enclosed space

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aesthetic presentation

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Retail exhibition space

model home

Family

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Familiarity
Top 20,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G