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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
untidy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leave sth open/empty/untidy etc
▪ I wish you’d stop leaving the door open.
untidy
▪ There was a small untidy garden behind the house.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
▪ Jeans were out, likewise long and untidy hair, while beards were not encouraged.
▪ White, thin, with big dark eyes and untidy hair.
▪ Fran ran a hand over her damp face and smoothed her untidy hair.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb always was lucky/untidy etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was comically tall and thin with a long growth of untidy beard.
▪ The little children were dirty and untidy, but very happy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I don't remember every single item in every untidy report that the two of you have ever put in.
▪ Is she really free to be as tidy or untidy as she pleases?
▪ It was a delightful, careless room, untidy and rather deficient in comfortable chairs.
▪ The darkness of the long winter night had settled when the train came to an untidy halt at Pot'ma station.
▪ The room was untidy, dusty, and much used.
▪ This was in a most untidy state.
▪ Woe betide anyone who was untidy or out of step on one of the marches.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Untidy

Untidy \Un*ti"dy\, a.

  1. Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] ``Untidy tales.''
    --Piers Plowman.

  2. Not tidy or neat; slovenly. [1913 Webster] -- Un*ti"di*ly, adv. -- Un*ti"di*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
untidy

early 13c., "untimely, unseasonable, unsuitable," from un- (1) "not" + tidy (adj.). Similar formation in West Frisian ontidich, Middle Dutch ontidich, Dutch ontijdig, Old High German unzitich, German unzeitig, Norwegian utidig "untimely, unseasonable, unfavorable." Meaning "poorly cared for, not neat" is recorded from mid-14c.

untidy

"make untidy," 1891, from untidy (adj.). Related: Untidied; untidying.\n

Wiktionary
untidy

a. 1 sloppy. 2 disorganized.

WordNet
untidy
  1. adj. not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" [ant: tidy]

  2. careless and slovenly

  3. [also: untidied, untidiest, untidier]

Usage examples of "untidy".

Spellbound by his loveliness, I experienced those familiar feelings of longing to touch his untidy, black hair, coax desire from his sensual yet passionless mouth, and ease the frown from his autocratic brow.

As it poured down his gullet he felt it scouring him, reducing the untidy tangle of his insides to a minimalist shell.

He was not quite what she had expected, looked more like an overage rocker than a netwalker: a big man, broad through the shoulders and thick-bodied, with a mane of untidy, greying curls and a fleshy, broad-boned face.

He lay limp in the untidy mess and nonfunctional litter of the control room and his weary eyes seldom shifted far from the pyrometer which read the hull temperatures.

The secretarial staff supervisor looked up from her desk as Claudia came into the large, untidy office overlooking the park.

There were windows at untidy intervals, as if they had been spilt from the highest point to fall irregularly between the roof and the ground.

Farther down and to the left of this mimic ocean, clumps of tourists, undistressed by the discomforts of their caged kin, idled from the monkey-house toward the bear-pits, pausing briefly to glance up through the untidy steel netting of the squawking, acrid aviary.

He was slumped in a chair, looking hopelessly at the untidy stacks of papers and undusted ledgers that had accumulated on every horizontal surface.

The untidy, unmastered, lovely sprawl of the forest put her in context.

If the woman had been untidy and unmethodical, she had at least had a streak of caution.

Waiting a moment to get her breath, she made a hasty bouquet of some blue campanulas and sprigs of whortleberry and then sauntered down the path, a little flushed, a little untidy about the hair and wet about the shoes, but on the whole a creditable specimen of early-rising vigorous maidenhood.

It must have seemed very cruel to Alphonsine that she, with her smooth brown hair which she coiffed perfectly, her long white hands, and her slender body with its hour-glass waist, which had a strange air of having been filleted of all grossness, could never know the joy that could be obtained even by this black untidy girl.

My Uncle Robert was a little man with grey untidy hair and little sharp eyes hooded by two of the bushiest eyebrows known to humanity.

The open ground stretched two hundred meters wide to where the deadwood was piled in untidy windrows, the leaves long, withered, and browned, the branches forming a natural barricade.

She looked at his bare feet, the legs protruding from beneath his djellaba, his untidy sprawl.