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PRONUNCIATION OF MESSILY

messily  [ˈmesɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MESSILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Messily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES MESSILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of messily in the English dictionary

The definition of messily in the dictionary is in a way which is dirty, confused, or untidy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MESSILY


classily
ˈklɑːsɪlɪ
crusily
ˈkruːsɪlɪ
dressily
ˈdresɪlɪ
fancily
ˈfænsɪlɪ
fussily
ˈfʌsɪlɪ
glassily
ˈɡlɑːsɪlɪ
glossily
ˈɡlɒsɪlɪ
horsily
ˈhɔːsɪlɪ
icily
ˈaɪsɪlɪ
juicily
ˈdʒuːsɪlɪ
lacily
ˈlaɪsɪlɪ
mussily
ˈmʌsɪlɪ
racily
ˈreɪsɪlɪ
sassily
ˈsæsɪlɪ
saucily
ˈsɔːsɪlɪ
sexily
ˈsɛksɪlɪ
Sicily
ˈsɪsɪlɪ
silly
ˈsɪlɪ
spicily
ˈspaɪsɪlɪ
tossily
ˈtɒsɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MESSILY

messianic
messianically
messianism
Messidor
messier
Messier catalogue
messiest
messieurs
Messina
messiness
messman
messmate
Messrs
messuage
messy

WORDS THAT END LIKE MESSILY

bossily
brassily
busily
cheesily
clumsily
cosily
drowsily
easily
flimsily
flossily
gassily
grassily
greasily
noisily
nosily
prissily
queasily
rosily
uneasily
unfussily

Synonyms and antonyms of messily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «messily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MESSILY

Find out the translation of messily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of messily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «messily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

乱七八糟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desordenadamente
570 millions of speakers

English

messily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

messily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بقذارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неряшливо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

messily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অগোছালভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

messily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan senyap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

messily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

乱雑に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

messily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kotor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cẩu thả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

messily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोंधळाने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

messily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

messily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niechlujnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неохайно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

messily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

messily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

morsig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

messily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

messily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of messily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MESSILY»

The term «messily» is regularly used and occupies the 82.948 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MESSILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «messily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «messily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about messily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MESSILY»

Discover the use of messily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to messily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
MESSILY complete list, and is the document usually referred to as Messier's Catalogue. 1964 V. BAROCAS tr. Abetti £5? Haek's Nebulae £9” Galaxies i. 23 After the Messier catalogue and John Herschel's general catalogue of 1 864 and the ...
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner, 1997
2
Advanced Perl Programming
This punctuation-based assumption is generally good enough, but screws up messily on sentences containing abbreviations followed by capital letters, e.g., This one. It incorrectly identifies the boundary between the punctuation and the ...
Simon Cozens, 2005
3
The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic ...
What's really happening? Bert gaat het rozijntje HIER opeten. Bert goes the raisin here up-eat Bert is going to eat the raisin HERE. Bert gaat HIER het rozijntje opeten. E2. definite referential DP with low adverb messily/neatly Ernie: Yummie,  ...
Jeannette C. Schaeffer, 2000
4
The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
2 a dash of water, a splashing. v splash with water, flush. slooster v work untidily or messily. slootch v 1 slouch. 2 crouch, cower, skulk. n 1 a slouch. 2 an idle, work-shy person. slop see slap1, slap2, slorach v 1 eat or drink messily and noisily, ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
5
Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from The Wall Street ...
Messily. Very messily. So messily that for some time there has been an international effort afoot among people in the fowl-firing business to develop a synthetic chicken. Most popular to date is a jellified substance made from seaweed. But Mr.
Ken Wells, 2008
6
Oxford Studies in Metaethics
“Whatcha wanna do” she says, “is kill 'em real messily.” “What?” asks Jack, “you mean, like with a chainsaw or something?” “Yeah”, she replies, “You oughtta kill “ em with a chainsaw.” Let MURDER represent their reasoning. We can now put ...
Russ Shafer-Landau, 2012
7
Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The Psychiatrization of ...
To write messily about GMH and psychiatry is to move away from questions of being 'for' or 'against', 'pro' or 'anti'; it is to ask what these particular frameworks prevent us from seeing, and what alternative ways of intervening they might ...
China Mills, 2014
8
Basque-English Dictionary
Cf. larritu. nahasiki adv. confusedly, in a muddled manner, messily. Cf. nahasiz, nahas-mahaska. nahasitako adj. mixed (up), confused, muddled. nahasiz adv. confusedly, messily, in a disorganized way. Cf. nahasiki. nahaskatu (L,LN,Z) v.t. to ...
Gorka Aulestia, 1989
9
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts ...
The Harvard senior researcher and author of Everything is Miscellaneous reveals how business, science, education and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to make better decisions, offering insight into how the Internet age ...
David Weinberger, 2011
10
The syntax of verbal pseudo-coordination in English and ...
Note that sorgvuldig 'carefully- and morsig 'messily' are manner adverbs which can adjoin to either vP (PredP in the system of Emst (2002)) and to VP. Other adverbs like herhaaldelik must necessarily take complete events in their scope and ...
Mark Andrew De Vos, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MESSILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term messily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why The Hotness Rating Scale Needs To Go Away (/Die A Painful …
... drink three gin and tonics on an empty stomach and suddenly find yourself crying, heavily and messily into your best friend's birthday cake? «Marie Claire.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Added vegan plates just one aspect of the rebooted McCabe's
Next visit, I want to turn this patty into a salad topper, as it messily squirts out the sides of the toasted bun anyway. I would, though, miss the side ... «Colorado Springs Independent, Jul 15»
3
Crüze Control
There's also the Broccodile, messily anchoring fire-roasted tomatoes, fresh kale slaw and house-smoked Swiss with a griddled broccoli and ... «Comstock's Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Grassroots Power: A Key Part of Winning on Trade
When fast track finally passed, it was like a Frankenstein monster: broken apart and messily patched together. Democratic leaders including ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
5
Donald Trump and the American Attitude Toward National Service
The lack of conscription is, of course, critical for maintaining the separation and keeping the military world from intruding messily on our own. «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
6
Marble going through growing pains
... it's all part of the puzzle to protect our resources and protect the rights of the residents as we present our town in a sort of messily vital way.” «Aspen Daily News, Jul 15»
7
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man, Sadler's Wells
We know from the first, steamy, moments that it's only a matter of time before this hot potato explodes messily, and the all-bumping, all-grinding ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
8
Olu Famutimi comes off bench, sinks winning free throws for …
It caught back iron and settled messily through the rim. Tie game. Famutimi's second shot cleared iron. Nothing but net. And when Boeheim's ... «Syracuse.com, Jul 15»
9
Carl Frampton overpowers Alejandro Gonzalez in El Paso
Things threatened to end as they began - messily. There were more low blow complaints before the champion finished strongly with the crowd ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
10
The Ashes: England vs Australia, Second Test, day four: as it …
... quickly, very messily, and it is going to be quite unpleasant to watch. Broad manages to get enough bat on the first bouncer, donks it for three. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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