disordered

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɔɹdɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɔːdəd/
• Hyphenation: dis‧or‧dered

Verb

disordered

1. simple past and past participle of disorder

Adjective

disordered (comparative more disordered, superlative most disordered)

1. Chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder.
2. (of a sequence) in an incorrect or unexpected order.
3. Deranged.
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     The frenzy which had unsettled the mind of the hermit was by him communicated to his hearers who, sinking into a trance, fell easy victims to the fearful visions of a disordered mind.

4. Having a medical disorder.

   a disordered gambler

Derived terms

• disorderedly
• disorderedness
• nondisordered
• predisordered
• quasidisordered
• undisordered

 

Related terms

• disorderly
• eating-disordered
• mental-disordered
• ordered

Translations

chaotic

• Belarusian: бязла́дны (bjazládny), неўпарадкаваны (njeŭparadkavany)
• Bulgarian: разбъркан (bg) (razbǎrkan), неподреден (bg) (nepodreden)
• Dutch: onoverzichtelijk (nl), chaotisch (nl), wanordelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: malorda
• French: désordonné (fr)
• German: durcheinander (de)
• Greek: ακατάστατος (el) (akatástatos)
• Latin: inconditus
• Maori: pōkīkī, tūrangaranga, tīraurau, hahohaho, pūaweawe
• Polish: bezładny (pl)
• Russian: беспоря́дочный (ru) (besporjádočnyj), неупоря́доченный (ru) (neuporjádočennyj)
• Spanish: desordenado (es)
• Ukrainian: безла́дний (uk) (bezládnyj), невпорядко́ваний (nevporjadkóvanyj)