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Disorder

Disorder Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Disorder? [n] a disturbance of the peace or of public order [n] condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" [n] a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" [v] bring disorder to [v] disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Disorder: cark \| disarray \| disquiet \| distract \| perturb \| trouble \| unhinge \| upset Related Terms \| Find terms related to Disorder: abnormality \| acute disease \| affection \| afflict \| affliction \| affray \| agitation \| ailment \| allergic disease \| allergy \| aloofness \| amorphia \| amorphism \| amorphousness \| anarchism \| anarcho-syndicalism \| anarchy \| anomie \| antinomianism \| ataxia \| atrophy \| bacterial disease \| badness \| ball up \| battle \| battle royal \| bedlam \| befuddle \| befuddlement \| bewilderment \| birth defect \| blight \| blobbiness \| blur \| blurriness \| bluster \| bobbery \| boil \| boiling \| bother \| botheration \| brawl \| broadness \| brouhaha \| bustle \| capriciousness \| cardiovascular disease \| changeability \| changeableness \| chaos \| choppiness \| chronic disease \| churn \| circulatory disease \| civil disorder \| clamor \| cloud \| clutter \| commotion \| complaint \| complication \| condition \| confound \| confuse \| confusion \| congenital defect \| conturbation \| convulsion \| criminal syndicalism \| dappleness \| daze \| debilitate \| defect \| deficiency disease \| deform \| deformity \| degenerative disease \| derange \| derangement \| deviation \| devitalize \| difference \| differentiation \| diffusion \| disability \| disable \| disarrange \| disarrangement \| disarray \| discombobulation \| discomfiture \| discompose \| discomposure \| disconcertion \| discontinuity \| discourtesy \| discreteness \| disease \| dishevel \| disjoint \| disjunction \| dislocate \| dislocation \| disorderliness \| disorderly conduct \| disorganization \| disorganize \| disorientation \| dispersal \| dispersion \| disquiet \| disquietude \| disrupt \| disruption \| disruptiveness \| dissolution \| distemper \| distort \| disturb \| disturbance \| divarication \| divergence \| diversification \| ebullition \| embarrassment \| embroil \| embroilment \| endemic \| endemic disease \| endocrine disease \| enervate \| enfeeble \| entropy \| epidemic disease \| excitement \| ferment \| fermentation \| fever \| feverishness \| fidgets \| fight \| flap \| flummox \| flurry \| fluster \| flutter \| flutteration \| fog \| fog up \| fogginess \| foment \| formlessness \| fracas \| fray \| free-for-all \| frenzy \| frowned-upon behavior \| fuddle \| fuddlement \| fume \| functional disease \| fungus disease \| fuss \| fuzziness \| gastrointestinal disease \| generality \| genetic disease \| handicap \| hash \| haze \| haziness \| hereditary disease \| hooliganism \| horseplay \| hospitalize \| hubbub \| huddle \| hullabaloo \| hurly-burly \| iatrogenic disease \| ill \| ill-definedness \| illness \| imprecision \| impropriety \| inaccuracy \| incapacitate \| inchoateness \| incoherence \| inconsistency \| inconstancy \| indecisiveness \| indefinableness \| indefiniteness \| indeterminateness \| indispose \| indisposition \| inequality \| inexactness \| infectious disease \| infirmity \| inquietude \| insanity \| instability \| invalid \| irregularity \| jerkiness \| jitters \| jumble \| jumpiness \| knock galley-west \| laxity \| lay up \| litter \| looseness \| lynch law \| maelstrom \| malady \| malaise \| maze \| melee \| mercuriality \| mess \| mess up \| messiness \| misarrange \| misarrangement \| misbehavior \| misconduct \| misdemeanor \| misdoing \| mishmash \| misrule \| mist \| mistiness \| mix up \| mob law \| mob rule \| mobocracy \| moil \| morbidity \| morbus \| motleyness \| muddle \| muddlement \| muscular disease \| muss \| muss up \| mutability \| naughtiness \| nerviness \| nervosity \| nervousness \| neurological disease \| nihilism \| nonadhesion \| noncohesion \| nonconformism \| nonconformity \| nonsanctioned behavior \| nonstandardization \| nonuniformity \| nutritional disease \| obfuscate \| obscuration \| obscure \| obscurity \| occupational disease \| ochlocracy \| orderlessness \| organic disease \| pandemic disease \| pandemonium \| pathological condition \| pathology \| perplexity \| perturb \| perturbation \| plant disease \| pluralism \| pother \| primal chaos \| protozoan disease \| psychosomatic disease \| pucker \| raggedness \| rebellion \| reduce \| respiratory disease \| restlessness \| revolution \| riot \| rockiness \| roil \| roughhouse \| rout \| row \| rowdiness \| rowdyism \| ruffianism \| ruffle \| rummage \| rumple \| rumpus \| scatter \| scattering \| scramble \| scuffle \| secondary disease \| seediness \| seethe \| seething \| separateness \| shake up \| shambles \| shapelessness \| shuffle \| shuffling \| sicken \| sickishness \| sickness \| signs \| snarl \| stew \| stir \| sweat \| sweepingness \| swirl \| swivet \| symptomatology \| symptomology \| symptoms \| syndicalism \| syndrome \| tangle \| the pip \| tizzy \| to-do \| tohubohu \| topsy-turviness \| tousle \| trepidation \| trepidity \| tumble \| tumult \| tumultuation \| turbidity \| turbulence \| turmoil \| turn \| twitter \| unadherence \| unadhesiveness \| unclearness \| unconformism \| unconformity \| unease \| unevenness \| unform \| unhinge \| unorthodoxy \| unrest \| unruliness \| unsettle \| unsettlement \| unshape \| unsteadiness \| untenacity \| untidiness \| upheaval \| uproar \| upset \| urogenital disease \| vagueness \| vandalism \| variability \| variation \| variegation \| variety \| variousness \| venial sin \| versatility \| vice \| violence \| virus disease \| wasting disease \| wavering \| weaken \| worm disease \| wrongdoing See Also \| abocclusion \| abruptio placentae \| achlorhydria \| acholia \| achylia \| achylia gastrica \| acute brain disorder \| acute organic brain syndrome \| adenosis \| ailment \| alter \| anarchy \| bladder disorder \| cardiovascular disease \| celiac disease \| change \| cheilosis \| choking \| cholestasis \| clutter \| colpoxerosis \| commotion \| complaint \| condition \| confusion \| degenerative disorder \| derange \| disarrange \| disarrangement \| discord \| disorderliness \| disorganisation \| disorganization \| disruption \| disturb \| disturbance \| dysaphia \| dysosmia \| dyspahgia \| dysuria \| eating disorder \| failure \| fantods \| flutter \| folie \| functional disorder \| gland disease \| glandular disease \| glandular disorder \| haematocolpometra \| haematocolpos \| hematocolpometra \| hematocolpos \| hoo-ha \| hoo-hah \| hurly burly \| hydrocele \| hyperactivity \| idiopathic disease \| idiopathic disorder \| idiopathy \| ill \| immunological disorder \| impacted tooth \| impaction \| instability \| jumble \| jumble \| kerfuffle \| lawlessness \| learning disability \| learning disorder \| malocclusion \| mare's nest \| mental disorder \| mental disturbance \| mess \| mess \| mess up \| messiness \| metabolic disorder \| muddle \| muss \| mussiness \| nervous disorder \| neurological disease \| neurological disorder \| ofactory impairment \| organic disorder \| parosamia \| perleche \| perturb \| psychological disorder \| riot \| rioting \| roughness \| rowdiness \| rowdyism \| scramble \| shambles \| sleep disorder \| smother \| speech defect \| speech disorder \| sprue \| state \| status \| stir \| strangulation \| strife \| Sturm und Drang \| throw out of kilter \| throw together \| to-do \| tropical sprue \| turbulence \| turmoil \| untidiness \| upheaval \| upset \| vex \| welter \| worry Disorder In Webster's Dictionary \Disor"der\, n. [Pref. dis- + order: cf. F. d['e]sordre.] 1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. --Pope. 3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult. --Shak. 4. Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. ``Disorder in the body.'' --Locke. Syn: Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle; disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness; ailment; malady; distemper. See {Disease}. \Disor"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disordered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disordering}.] 1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse. Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. --Burke. The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach. A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. --Macaulay. 3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] --Dryden. Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.

Disorder Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Disorder?

[n] a disturbance of the peace or of public order
[n] condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
[n] a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder"
[v] bring disorder to
[v] disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"

Disorder In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*or"der\, n. [Pref. dis- + order: cf. F.
d['e]sordre.]
1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement;
   confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into
   disorder; the papers are in disorder.

2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity.

         From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
         snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. --Pope.

3. Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of
   society; tumult. --Shak.

4. Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the
   soul; sickness; derangement. ``Disorder in the body.''
   --Locke.

Syn: Irregularity; disarrangement; confusion; tumult; bustle;
     disturbance; disease; illness; indisposition; sickness;
     ailment; malady; distemper. See {Disease}.


\Dis*or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disordered}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Disordering}.]
1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to
   throw into confusion; to confuse.

         Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence.
                                               --Burke.

         The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary
         rafters into a common ruin.           --Jer. Taylor.

2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions
   of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or
   indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to
   disorder the head or stomach.

         A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party
         spirit.                               --Macaulay.

3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] --Dryden.

Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.

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