Download the app
educalingo
Search
I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
Conrad Veidt

Meaning of "untidiness" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF UNTIDINESS

untidiness  [ʌnˈtaɪdɪnɪs] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNTIDINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Untidiness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNTIDINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of untidiness in the English dictionary

The definition of untidiness in the dictionary is the condition of being not neat or well arranged. Other definition of untidiness is the condition of not caring about whether things are neat and well arranged.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNTIDINESS


cloudiness
ˈklaʊdɪnɪs
foolhardiness
ˈfuːlˌhɑːdɪnɪs
giddiness
ˈɡɪdɪnɪs
greediness
ˈɡriːdɪnɪs
handiness
ˈhændɪnɪs
hardiness
ˈhɑːdɪnɪs
moodiness
ˈmuːdɪnɪs
neediness
ˈniːdɪnɪs
readiness
ˈrɛdɪnɪs
rowdiness
ˈraʊdɪnɪs
shadiness
ˈʃeɪdɪnɪs
speediness
ˈspiːdɪnɪs
steadiness
ˈstɛdɪnɪs
sturdiness
ˈstɜːdɪnɪs
tardiness
ˈtɑːdɪnɪs
tidiness
ˈtaɪdɪnɪs
trendiness
ˈtrendɪnɪs
unsteadiness
ʌnˈstɛdɪnɪs
woodiness
ˈwʊdɪnɪs
wordiness
ˈwɜːdɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNTIDINESS

untidied
untidier
untidies
untidiest
untidily
untidy
untie
until
until one is blue in the face
untile
untillable
untilled
untilted
untimbered
untimed
untimeliness
untimely
untimeously
untinctured
untinged

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNTIDINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
happiness
holiness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
show business
timeliness

Synonyms and antonyms of untidiness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «untidiness» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF UNTIDINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

不整洁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

untidiness
570 millions of speakers

English

untidiness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लापरवाही
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير مرتب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неопрятность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

untidiness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপরিচ্ছন্নতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

désordre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keburukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unordnung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

乱雑さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

untidiness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Untidiness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô trật tự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழுக்காக்கிவிடுவதால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्वस्थता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

düzensizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disordine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Nieporządek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неохайність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dezordine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακαταστασία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slordigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

untidiness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

untidiness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of untidiness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTIDINESS»

The term «untidiness» is regularly used and occupies the 103.366 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
52
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «untidiness» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of untidiness
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «untidiness».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTIDINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «untidiness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «untidiness» 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 untidiness

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «UNTIDINESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word untidiness.
1
Conrad Veidt
I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTIDINESS»

Discover the use of untidiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to untidiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Ends of Allegory
3. The. Untidiness. of. Allegory: A. Sick. Rose. and. Chocolate. Shrimps. Using the structure of allegorical reading explained and diagramed at the end of chapter 2, I now want to account for the phenomena noted in chapter 1: why is allegory ...
Sayre N. Greenfield, 1998
2
The Challenge of Epidemiology: Issues and Selected Readings
By some this supposed excessive susceptibility is explained as dependent on the untidiness which favors filth infection. The true explanation, however, is that both the untidiness and the supposed excessive susceptibility of these inmates are ...
Carol Buck, 1988
3
The Little Virtues
My tidiness and untidiness are full of complicated feelings of regret and sadness. His untidiness is triumphant. He has decided that it is proper and legitimate for a studious person like himself to have an untidy desk. He does not help me get ...
Natalia Ginzburg, 1989
4
Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism
The rape, in fact, culminates the process by which Alex, fascinated by Milena's ' otherness', nevertheless tries to impose his own sense of order on her 'untidiness '; this process is duplicated in the efforts of the Austrian policeman, lnspector ...
Lester D. Friedman, 2006
5
The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters ...
A good part of her second paragraph is devoted to the appearance of the letter itself: "I need scarcely apologize for the disgraceful untidiness of my note, as you may well imagine that neither my hand nor my head is in a very favorable state for ...
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, 1996
6
The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s
In creating his leviathan, Rockefeller had been forced to resort to a variety of ad hoc measures, with the result that the Standard Oil combination exhibited a certain legal untidiness. Most persons would hardly have noticed: Rockefeller ...
H.W. Brands, 2002
7
Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog
He was a small, frail looking old man with a permanently thoughtful look etched on his face and he had an almost tangible aura of untidiness around him. It was as if he radiated untidiness, as if all the untidiness in the world emanated from him ...
Fahim Farook
8
Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework
They shrink away from systems of history and from general rules, and carry around in their heads lists of exceptions to almost any rule they are likely to encounter. They do not mind untidiness and accident in the past; they rather like them.
John Gerring, 2001
9
Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of ...
That is, in 1931 Greg understands theatrical texts typically to be scribal copies and defines such “promptbooks” in contradistinction to authorial MSS, which, for him, are typically “foul papers,” disqualified from theatrical use by the untidiness ...
Paul Werstine, 2013
10
Selvages and Biases: The Fabric of History in American Culture
They do not mind untidiness and accident in the past; they rather like them. Lumpers do not like accidents; they would prefer to have them vanish. They tend to ascribe apparent accidents not to the untidiness of the past itself but to the ...
Michael G. Kammen, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNTIDINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term untidiness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
LETTER: Roadsides are rich in natural species
There have probably been complaints about 'untidiness', and recently, I heard that there were plans to use herbicides on verges to 'get rid of those weeds'. «Mid Sussex Times, Jul 15»
2
Why We Don't Date
Why waste time building a relationship when we can get what we need (or at least finish stat homework on time) without the untidiness of feeling? Moreover ... «Harvard Crimson, Jan 15»
3
Carolyn Hax: Fiance's comments on her untidiness might lead to …
Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn: Carolyn Hax started her advice column in 1997, after five years as a copy editor and news editor in Style ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
4
Gardeners turfed off allotments for untidiness by strict site manager
DIG deep to look after your plot or you'll be turfed out. This is the warning issued to gardeners who rent space at Mount Noddy Allotments in East Grinstead. «East Grinstead Courier, May 14»
5
Untidy desk is bad for business - survey
Being untidy doesn't just waste time – it can cause rows, loss of business and ... men than women have been reprimanded for untidiness – 13.4 percent of male ... «Independent Online, Oct 13»
6
The Shrink & The Sage
Mental untidiness would therefore seem to be just lackadaisical inconsistency. However, just as lovers of well-kept homes can be obsessively fastidious, ... «Financial Times, Sep 13»
7
Dublin Bus driver assaulted by colleague after complaint about …
He said he had brought the matter of untidiness up with his colleague in the crew room at the Phibsboro, Dublin, depot and told him he often smelled cigarette ... «BreakingNews.ie, Oct 12»
8
Hoarding disorder, or why refusing to throw anything away is all in …
Up to three million Britons are believed to suffer from hoarding disorder, which some have dismissed as laziness or untidiness. But victims who are often live ... «Daily Mail, Aug 12»
9
Tackling clutter to ease anxiety
What kind of clutter are we talking about - hoarding, reluctance to throw things away or serious untidiness? Nicky Lidbetter says: "Anxiety UK's involvement with ... «WebMD.Boots.com, Apr 12»
10
Fort Pierce woman charged after allegedly stabbing untidy
FORT PIERCE — A woman who didn't like her new housemate's untidiness made her point by allegedly stabbing him in the chest with a pair of scissors as his ... «TCPalm, Apr 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Untidiness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/untidiness>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z