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单词 untidy
释义
untidy
adjective
mainlyUK
uk
/ʌnˈtaɪ.di/us
/ʌnˈtaɪ.di/
B1
nottidy:
不整洁的，邋遢的，凌乱的
an untidyroom凌乱的房间
She's really untidy athome.她在家真的很邋遢。
Synonym
messy(DIRTY/UNTIDY)
Opposites
neat(TIDY)
tidymainlyUK
More examples
  • Yourhandwritingis so untidy I can'treadit.
  • I can put up with thehousebeing untidy, but Ihateit if it's notclean.
  • Herdeskwas so untidy that shespentthewholedaytryingtoestablishsomesortoforder.
  • Tomalwaysleaveshisclothesin an untidyheapon thebedroomfloor.
  • Mike is really untidy - you shouldseethestateof hisflat!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dirty & untidy
  • all over the placeidiom
  • Augean
  • bedraggled
  • besmeared
  • bespattered
  • bloodied
  • insalubrious
  • insanitary
  • look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
  • mangy
  • manky
  • messily
  • messy
  • mucky
  • soiled
  • sordid
  • sordidly
  • sordidness
  • squalid
  • straggly
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Related words

untidily
untidiness
(Definition ofuntidyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

untidy| American Dictionary

untidy
adjective
us
/ʌnˈtɑɪ·di/
notneator well-arranged:
an untidyyard
(Definition ofuntidyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofuntidy

untidy
These modifications to their pure theory may seem to beuntidyand arbitrary.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The overall layout of the book is at times unhelpful: tables and diagrams spill into margins and generally look cramped anduntidy.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We try to fool the past by reconstructing it in our own image, imposing order and significance on theuntidysources we depend upon.
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Indeed, the edition as a whole is toountidyto be regarded as satisfactory.
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Clans could perhaps better be thought of as anuntidyknot, or dense cluster of knots.
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It is a comprehensive, lucid, and carefully researched piece of work analyzing anuntidybody of literature.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Simply sweepinguntidycomponents of the phenomena under the proverbial rug will not get us closer to a satisfactory explanation.
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The point is we can construct and useuntidyand incomplete mappings without ever being close to proving the existance of an isomorphism (partial or otherwise).
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The ' middle sort of people ' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries remain elusive, definitions of them continue to be imprecise, and the resultant groups are still incoherent anduntidy.
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This is, indeed, ratheruntidy, but it represents a genuine attempt by a thoughtful international political theorist to work through the moral implications of his position.
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The variable lengths of roles and the wealth of minor characters,untidyas they might appear on paper, are part of the work's realism and charm.
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Salma's father criticizes her dirty anduntidyways, with unwashed dishes, vegetable peelings and leftover food strewn around the kitchen and flies crawling over the uncovered food.
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You will be hounded and harried by endless local authorities and, in fact, it will beuntidyadministration.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To talk as if, somehow, all that is happening is veryuntidy, and must be put in order, is, to many of us, monstrous.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Competition should be the general principle and the feweruntidyloose ends we leave hanging round that general principle the better.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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