mess /mɛs/
1. a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
synset: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness
2. informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
synset: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle_of_fish
3. soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
synset: mess
4. a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
synset: mess
5. a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
6. (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"
synset: 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
synset: mess
2. make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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