mess

mess is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Mass; church service. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Mass; church service.
2. noun. A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
3. noun. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
4. noun. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
5. noun. The milk given by a cow at one milking.
6. noun. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
7. intransitive verb. To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
8. transitive verb. To supply with a mess.
9. noun. a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
10. noun. a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
11. noun. soft semiliquid food

    "a mess of porridge"

12. noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"

    "a deal of trouble"

    Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel

13. noun. informal terms for a difficult situation

    "he got into a terrible fix"

    "he made a muddle of his marriage"

    Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, muddle, pickle

14. noun. a state of confusion and disorderliness

    "the house was a mess"

    "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

    Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness

15. verb. make a mess of or create disorder in

    "He messed up his room"

16. verb. eat in a mess hall

Synonyms

batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad, fix, hole

Common word forms

mes, messed, messer, messes, messing

Words from these letters

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