Usually means: Disordered, chaotic, or poorly managed.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. messed: Merriam-Webster
  2. messed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. messed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Messed, messed: Wordnik
  5. messed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. messed: Wiktionary
  7. Messed, messed: Dictionary.com
  8. messed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Messed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Messed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. messed: FreeDictionary.org
  12. messed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. messed: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. messed: Medical dictionary

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  1. messed: Idioms

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  1. Messed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mess)

noun:  A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
noun:  (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
noun:  (euphemistic) Excrement.
noun:  (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
verb:  (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
verb:  To make soiled by defecating.
verb:  To make soiled by ejaculating.
verb:  (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
verb:  (intransitive) To interfere.
noun:  (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
noun:  (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
noun:  (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
noun:  A building or room in which mess is eaten.
noun:  A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
noun:  (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
noun:  (collective) A group of iguanas.
noun:  (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
verb:  (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
verb:  (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
verb:  (intransitive) To eat (with others).
verb:  (transitive) To supply with a mess.
noun:  A surname from German.
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