Overview of noun mess

The noun mess has 6 senses

• mess, messiness, muss, mussiness -- (a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed")


• fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish -- (informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage")


• mess -- (soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge")


• mess -- (a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel)


• mess, mess hall -- (a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax)


• batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money")

Overview of verb mess

The verb mess has 2 senses

• mess -- (eat in a mess hall)


• mess, mess up -- (make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room")