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DISORDERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking orderly continuity
Example:
scattered thoughts
Synonyms:
confused; disconnected; disjointed; disordered; garbled; illogical; scattered; unconnected
Classified under:
Similar:
incoherent (without logical or meaningful connection)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not arranged in order
Synonyms:
disordered; unordered
Classified under:
Antonym:
ordered (having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
Example:
with everything so upset
Synonyms:
broken; confused; disordered; upset
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
disorganised; disorganized (lacking order or methodical arrangement or function)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb disorder
Context examples:
The whole disordered appearance of the camp showed that there had been some sort of attack, and the rifle-shot no doubt marked the time when it had occurred.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Methods, procedures, and tests performed to diagnose disease, disordered function, or disability.
(Diagnostic procedure, NCI Thesaurus)
His disordered dress showed that he had been hastily aroused from sleep.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The test results are often used by a clinician to diagnose disease or disordered function.
(Cytologic Test, NCI Thesaurus)
Go back to your master and give him greeting from Sir Nigel Loring of Twynham Castle, telling him that I had hoped to make his better acquaintance this night, and that, if I have disordered his tent, it was but in my eagerness to know so famed and courteous a knight.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An institute within the National Institutes of Health that is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language.
(National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NCI Thesaurus)
I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
By that time, Marianne was rather better, and her mother leaving her to the care of Margaret and the maid, returned to Elinor, who, though still much disordered, had so far recovered the use of her reason and voice as to be just beginning an inquiry of Thomas, as to the source of his intelligence.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I knew Mr. Rochester; though the begrimed face, the disordered dress (his coat hanging loose from one arm, as if it had been almost torn from his back in a scuffle), the desperate and scowling countenance, the rough, bristling hair might well have disguised him.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
