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How to pronounce mess in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle
Type of difficulty
Has types dog's breakfast, dog's dinner
Type Words
Synonyms messiness, muss, mussiness
Type of disorderliness, disorder
Derivation messy


the house was a mess.
Type Words
Synonyms batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
Type of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
Has types deluge, flood, haymow, inundation, torrent
Type Words
Synonyms mess up
Type of disorder, disarray


He messed up his room.
Type Words
Synonyms mess hall
Type of dining-room, dining room
Has types officer's mess
Type Words
Type of meal, repast
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Type of eat
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Type of alimentation, nutrition, aliment, nutriment, nourishment, sustenance, victuals


a mess of porridge.

Examples of mess

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Lucas, a Detroiter from Orchard Lake St. Mary's, was a mess earlier this season.
From the freep.com
It's a messier way of doing business and some people have a hard time with mess.
From the avc.com
The mess that originates within the home is a lot easier to measure and control.
From the time.com
So, leadership-hopeful Huhne has only himself to blame for the mess he's in now.
From the mirror.co.uk
Has anybody ever tried fiddling with his stuff on a changeover to mess with him?
From the telegraph.co.uk
Sure, most times the randomly generated text makes up a jumbled mess of nothing.
From the cnn.com
Still, they should've been more durable, and now Apple has to clean up the mess.
From the techcrunch.com
Look at RT news channel for a more balanced factual reporting of the whole mess.
From the guardian.co.uk
They leave and the place is a mess and we, the tax payers have to foot the bill.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
More examples
  • Eat in a mess hall
  • A state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
  • Fix: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
  • Make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
  • Soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
  • A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
  • A mess (also called a messdeck aboard ships) is the place where military personnel socialise, eat, and (in some cases) live. In some societies this military usage has extended to other disciplined services eateries such as civilian fire fighting and police forces. ...
  • Mess is an album released by the British group Fila Brazillia on Pork Recordings in 1996.
  • Mess was an Austrian band which represented the country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 performing Sonntag (Sunday).