Xem thêm: messiness, muss, mussiness, fix, hole, jam, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish, mess hall, batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew, mess up
mess noun
ADJ. absolute, complete, real, right, total | appalling, awful, bloody (taboo), nasty, terrible | confusing | tangled, untidy Her hair was a tangled mess. | gooey, slimy, soggy, sticky | emotional He's an emotional mess since his girlfriend left him. | economic, financial
VERB + MESS leave, make Must you always leave such a mess? She felt she was making a terrible mess of her life. | clean up, clear up, tidy up, wipe up | feel I felt a mess. | look | create, get sb into Who got us into this mess in the first place? | deal with, get sb out of, sort out
PREP. in a ~ The kitchen's in an awful mess. | ~ of There was a soggy mess of porridge on the table.
n.
the house was a mess
she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
he got into a terrible fix
he made a muddle of his marriage
a mess of porridge
a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
it must have cost plenty
v.
He messed up his room
