Word Meanings - MESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mass; church service. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MESS)

• Abortion
• Failure
• miscarriage
• misadventure
• downfall
• mishap
• misproduction
• defect
• frustration
• blunder
• mess
• Botch
• Patch
• cobble
• clump
• disconcert
• spoil
• jumble
• bungle
• mar
• blacksmith
• Decoction
• Concoction
• dish
• compound
• plate
• platter
• extract

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MESS)

• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to MESS)

• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• ABORTION
  Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. 4. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.
• ANALYZER
  The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, analyzes.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.