DISORGANIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disorganized mean? 

• DISORGANIZED (adjective)
  The adjective DISORGANIZED has 1 sense:

1. lacking order or methodical arrangement or function

  Familiarity information: DISORGANIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISORGANIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking order or methodical arrangement or function

Synonyms:

disorganised; disorganized

Context example:

she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate

Similar:

broken; confused; disordered; upset (thrown into a state of disarray or confusion)

chaotic; helter-skelter (lacking a visible order or organization)

fucked-up; snafu (snarled or stalled in complete confusion)

scrambled (thrown together in a disorderly fashion)

unmethodical (not efficient or methodical)

undone; unstuck (thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence)

Also:

unsystematic (lacking systematic arrangement or method or organization)

Antonym:

organized (methodical and efficient in arrangement or function)

 Context examples 

A benign and excessive tumor-like growth of mature cells and normal tissues which grow in a disorganized pattern.

(Hamartoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This can be seen in the tangled features above and below the plane, where the local magnetic field is particularly disorganized.

(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)

A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, and a flat or inappropriate affect; associated features include grimacing, mannerisms, and other oddities of behavior.

(Disorganized Type Schizophrenia, NCI Thesaurus)

Microscopically, it is characterized by disorganized areas, which are called cores, seen usually in the center of the muscle fibers.

(Central Core Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or grossly disorganized behavior that resolve within a month.

(Brief Psychotic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in disorganized growth of retinal blood vessels, which may lead to scarring and retinal detachment.

(Immature Retinopathy of Prematurity, NICHD)

A type of schizophrenia characterized by frequent incoherence; marked loosening of associations, or grossly disorganized behavior and flat or grossly inappropriate affect that does not meet the criteria for the catatonic type; associated features include extreme social withdrawal, grimacing, mannerisms, mirror gazing, inappropriate giggling, and other odd behavior.

(Disorganized Type Schizophrenia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)