1. (

• mess ,
• messiness ,
• muss ,
• mussiness

) a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" ;

2. (

• fix ,
• hole ,
• jam ,
• mess ,
• muddle ,
• pickle ,
• kettle_of_fish

) informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" ;

3. (

• mess ,

) soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge" ;

4. (

• mess

) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel ;

5. (

• mess ,
• mess_hall

) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax ;

6. (

• batch ,
• deal ,
• flock ,
• good_deal ,
• great_deal ,
• hatful ,
• heap ,
• lot ,
• mass ,
• mess ,
• mickle ,
• mint ,
• mountain ,
• muckle ,
• passel ,
• peck ,
• pile ,
• plenty ,
• pot ,
• quite_a_little ,
• raft ,
• sight ,
• slew ,
• spate ,
• stack ,
• tidy_sum ,
• wad

) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" ;

1. (

• mess

) eat in a mess hall ;

2. (

• mess ,
• mess_up

) make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" ;