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(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. / (of a person) Prone to causing mess. / (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.

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Source Word

messy

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈmɛsi/

Adjective

of a place person of a person of a situation

(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. / (of a person) Prone to causing mess. / (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.

Japanese Meaning

場所や状況、人などが乱雑で、混沌としている状態 / （人に対して）散らかしやすい、または無秩序な行動をとる傾向がある / 状況が整理しづらく、手に負えない、あるいは対応が困難な状態

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Her desk is messy after a week of deadlines.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

締め切りに追われた一週間の後、彼女の机は散らかっている。

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(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.

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