Mess I Mes Made Room Real Situation Noun

• the room was in a mess.
• the kids made a mess in the bathroom.
• ‘what a mess!’ she said, surveying the scene after the party.
• my hair's a real mess!

mess

1. a dirty or untidy state
• The room was in a mess.
• The kids made a mess in the bathroom.
• ‘What a mess!’ she said, surveying the scene after the party.
• My hair's a real mess!

Extra Examples

• Must you always leave such a mess?
• Sorry, this place is a bit of a mess.
• Let's try to sort out the mess.
• Why don't you clean up this disgusting mess?
• They've left the most terrible mess in their bedrooms.
• She searched through the mess of papers on her desk.
• Soon both fighters were a bloody mess of flying punches.
• There was a soggy mess of porridge on the table.
• There was a tangled mess of wires under her desk.
2. a situation that is full of problems, usually because of a lack of organization or because of mistakes that somebody has made
• The economy is in a mess.
• a financial mess
• I feel I've made a mess of things.
• How did this whole mess start?
• Let's try to sort out the mess.
• How do we get out of this mess?
• The biggest question is how they got into this mess in the first place.
• That’s another fine mess you’ve got us into.
• The entire event is a sorry mess.

Extra Examples

• A new managing director has been appointed to clear up the financial mess.
• I got myself into a complete mess.
• I have to try to fix the mess you caused.
• I'm in a huge mess. I don't know what to do.
• My life's becoming a big mess.
• The whole situation is a giant mess.
• The whole situation is a mess.
• The plot is an incoherent mess.
• We found ourselves in a real mess.
• Who got us into this mess in the first place?
• You started this entire mess!
• There is still a way out of this economic mess.
3. a person who is dirty or whose clothes and hair are not tidy
• You're a mess!
4. a person who has serious problems and is in a bad mental condition
• When my wife left me I was a total mess.
5. the excrement (= solid waste matter) of an animal, usually a dog or cat
6. a lot of something
• There's a mess of fish down there, so get your lines in the water.
7. a building or room in which members of the armed forces have their meals
• the officers’ mess

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French mes ‘portion of food’, from late Latin missum ‘something put on the table’, past participle of mittere ‘send, put’. The original sense was ‘a serving of (semi-liquid) food’, later ‘liquid food for an animal’; this gave rise (early 19th cent.) to the senses ‘unappetizing concoction’ and ‘predicament’, on which senses 1, 3 and 4 are based. In late Middle English the term also denoted any of the small groups into which the company at a banquet was divided (who were served from the same dishes); hence, ‘a group who regularly eat together’ (recorded in military use from the mid 16th cent.).