| untidy | | |
| adj. | 1. untidy | not neat and tidy.; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" |
| ~ dirty, soiled, unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
| ~ unfastidious | marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness.; "unfastidious in her dress" |
| ~ blowsy, blowzy, slatternly, sluttish | characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women. |
| ~ cluttered, littered | 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" |
| ~ disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled | in disarray; extremely disorderly.; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly" |
| ~ higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy, disorderly | in utter disorder.; "a disorderly pile of clothes" |
| ~ frowsy, frowzy, slovenly | negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt.; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance" |
| ~ messy, mussy | dirty and disorderly.; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits" |
| ~ scraggly | lacking neatness or order.; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door" |
| ~ sloppy | lacking neatness or order.; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits" |
| ~ slouchy | lacking stiffness in form or posture.; "a slouchy sweater" |
| ~ rambling, sprawling, straggling, straggly | spreading out in different directions.; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" |
| ~ unkempt | not properly maintained or cared for.; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt appearance" |
| ~ ungroomed | not neat and smart in appearance.; "he was wrinkled and ungroomed, with a two-day beard"; "ungroomed hair" |
| tick | | |
| n. (event) | 1. tick, ticking | a metallic tapping sound.; "he counted the ticks of the clock" |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| ~ ticktock, tictac, tocktact | steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock. |
| n. (animal) | 2. tick | any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals. |
| ~ acarina, order acarina | mites and ticks. |
| ~ acarine | mite or tick. |
| ~ hard tick, ixodid | ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head. |
| ~ argasid, soft tick | tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head. |
| n. (communication) | 3. check, check mark, tick | a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc..; "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name" |
| ~ mark | a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation).; "his answer was just a punctuation mark" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. tick | a light mattress. |
| ~ mattress | a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed. |
| v. (perception) | 5. click, tick | make a clicking or ticking sound.; "The clock ticked away" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (perception) | 6. beat, tick, ticktack, ticktock | make a sound like a clock or a timer.; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (contact) | 7. retick, tick | sew.; "tick a mattress" |
| ~ sew, sew together, stitch, run up | fasten by sewing; do needlework. |
| v. (cognition) | 8. check, check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off | put a check mark on or near or next to.; "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units" |
| ~ check, check into, check out, check over, check up on, suss out, look into, go over | examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition.; "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine" |
| ~ receipt | mark or stamp as paid. |
| ~ insure, see to it, ascertain, ensure, check, assure, control, see | be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something.; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" |
| ~ verify | confirm the truth of.; "Please verify that the doors are closed"; "verify a claim" |
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