derangement &c 61; irregularity; anomaly &c (unconformity) 83; anarchy,
anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c adj.; disunion; discord &c 24.
confusion; confusedness &c adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble,
huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage†; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss
[U.S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch†, hotch-pot†; imbroglio, chaos,
omnium gatherum [Lat.], medley; mere mixture &c 41; fortuitous
concourse of atoms, disjecta membra [Lat.], rudis indigestaque moles
[Lat.] [Ovid].
complexity &c 59.1.
turmoil; ferment &c (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder†,
pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar,
revolution, riot, rumpus, stour†, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb,
fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill
and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind &c 349; bear garden, Babel,
Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded,
most admired disorder, concordia discors [Lat.]; Bedlam, all hell broke
loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre
[Fr.], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work [Fr.],
pretty piece of business [Fr.].
[legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence;
misdemeanor.
[moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.
V. be disorderly &c adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.
put out of order; derange &c 61; ravel &c 219; ruffle, rumple.
Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear;
irregular, desultory; anomalous &c (unconformable) 83; acephalous†,
deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical,
immethodical†; unsymmetric†, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated;
out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical;
unarranged &c (arrange) &c 60; confused; deranged &c 61; topsy-turvy &c
(inverted) 218; shapeless &c 241; disjointed, out of joint.
troublous†; riotous &c (violent) 173.
complex &c 59.1.
Adv. irregularly &c adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and
starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a
ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c 218.
Phr. the cart before the horse; hysteron proteron [Gr.]; chaos is come
again; the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds [Addison].
59a. Complexity — N. complexity; complexness &c adj.; complexus†;
complication, implication; intricacy, intrication†; perplexity; network,
labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil
&c (convolution) 248; sleave†, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels
within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl†; webwork†.
[complexity if a task or action] difficulty &c 704.
V. complexify†, complicate.
Adj. gnarled, knarled†.
complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved,
raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible.