| disorderly | | |
| adj. | 1. disorderly | undisciplined and unruly.; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct" |
| ~ boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly | noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline.; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" |
| ~ mobbish, moblike | characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless.; "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing"; "moblike mentality" |
| ~ rowdy, raucous | disturbing the public peace; loud and rough.; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers" |
| ~ bare-knuckle, bare-knuckled, rough-and-tumble | characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules.; "a rough-and-tumble fight"; "rough-and-tumble politics"; "undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism" |
| adj. | 2. disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy | in utter disorder.; "a disorderly pile of clothes" |
| ~ untidy | not neat and tidy.; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" |
| adj. | 3. chaotic, disorderly | completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing. |
| ~ wild | marked by extreme lack of restraint or control.; "wild talk"; "wild parties" |
| knotty | | |
| adj. | 1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 2. gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty | used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" |
| ~ crooked | having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned.; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" |
| adj. | 3. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" |
| ~ complex | complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs" |
| adj. | 4. knotty, snarled, snarly | tangled in knots or snarls.; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" |
| ~ tangled | in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" |
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