untidy

desordenado

descuidado

untidy(uhn-tay-di)

adjective

1. (messy)

a. desordenado

This room is so untidy; it's a wonder you can ever find anything.

Este cuarto está tan desordenado que es un milagro que encuentres algo.

b. descuidado

He was regularly punished for his untidy schoolwork.

Lo castigaban con frecuencia por lo descuidadas que estaban sus tareas.

c. desprolijo

(South America)

Being a perfectionist, she detests an untidy job.

Por ser una perfeccionista, no soporta un trabajo desprolijo.

2. (unkempt)

a. descuidado

She could no longer manage the garden, and it had become untidy.

Ya no podía hacerse cargo del jardín, así que estaba descuidado.

b. desaliñado

With his loose tie and frayed shirt cuffs, he always looked untidy.

Con la corbata sin anudar y los puños de la camisa raídos, siempre tenía un aspecto desaliñado.

c. desarreglado

Wearing your hair loose makes you look untidy.

El pelo suelto te da un aspecto desarreglado.

d. desprolijo

(South America)

A man with an untidy air about him asked me if I had a cigarette.

Un hombre de aspecto desprolijo me preguntó si tenía un cigarrillo.

untidy

adjective

1. (person, place)

a. desordenado(a)

to be untidyestar desordenado(a)

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untidy [ʌnˈtaɪdɪ]

adjective

untidier (comparative)untidiest (superlative)

1 [+room, desk, heap, person] desordenado; [+garden] descuidado; [+appearance] desaliñado; descuidado; [+clothes] desarreglado; [+hair] despeinado; [+work, writing] poco metódico; descuidado

his clothes lay in an untidy heap clothes were thrown on the floor in an untidy heap The papers lay in an untidy pile on the desk the desk was covered with an untidy litter of papers The window looked out over the untidy back garden the place quickly became untidy she's a very untidy person His uniform was crumpled, untidy, splashed with mud pages covered with tightly packed, untidy writing, lines scrawled crosswise

2

the film has an untidy ending la película tiene un final poco coherente; an untidy mind una mente poco metódica

the vexing problems of an untidy post-war world A CLUTTERED desk piled high with papers is not necessarily the sign of an untidy mind Smith was one of the few England players to emerge with any real credit in an untidy match divorce can be an untidy process it was an untidy match