Usually means: Disordered, wrong, or badly managed.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. messed up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. messed up: Merriam-Webster
  3. messed up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. messed up: Vocabulary.com
  5. messed-up: Wordnik
  6. messed-up, messed up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. messed-up, messed up: Wiktionary
  8. messed up: Dictionary.com
  9. messed-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. messed up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. messed up: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. messed up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. messed up: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (messed up)

▸ adjective:  In disorder.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Intoxicated, drunk.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Morally reprehensible; clearly and grossly objectionable.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Damaged.

Similar:
messed-up, misarrayed, disordered, betumbled, fuckered up, malarranged, malorganized, screwed up, misorganized, janked, more...

Opposite:
clean, tidy, neat, orderly

Types:
broken, ruined, destroyed, crushed, dented, bent, scratched, torn, more...

Phrases:
messed up destroyed broken, messed up hair, hair messed up, to be messed up, messed it up, more...

Adjectives:
shambolic, disoriented, pell-mell, upside down, confusional, chaotic, marred, disconcerted, troublemaking, amated

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Similar:
messed-up, misarrayed, disordered, betumbled, fuckered up, malarranged, malorganized, screwed up, misorganized, janked, more...

Opposite:
clean, tidy, neat, orderly

Types:
broken, ruined, destroyed, crushed, dented, bent, scratched, torn, more...

Phrases:
messed up destroyed broken, messed up hair, hair messed up, to be messed up, messed it up, messed up word, rippled messed up, messed up all over, more...

Adjectives:
shambolic, disoriented, pell-mell, upside down, confusional, chaotic, marred, disconcerted, troublemaking, amated



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