CLUTTERED

cluttered, littered

(adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish; “the storm left the drivewaylittered with sticks nd debris”; “his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

cluttered (comparative more cluttered, superlative most cluttered)

Scattered with a disorderly mixture of objects that take up space; littered.

Hyponyms

• less-cluttered

• more-cluttered

Verb

cluttered

simple past tense and past participle of clutter

Anagrams

• declutter

Source: Wiktionary


CLUTTER

Clut"ter, n. Etym: [Cf. W. cludair heap, pile, cludeirio to heap.]

1. A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

2. Clatter; confused noise. Swift.

Clut"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cluttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cluttering.]

Definition: To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.

Clut"ter, v. i.

Definition: To make a confused noise; to bustle. It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there. Tennyson.

Clut"ter, v. t. Etym: [From Clod, n.]

Definition: To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET



Word of the Day

22 September 2024

SPRINGBOARD

(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.

coffee icon