mess

Noun

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  • a batch of letters
    
  • a deal of trouble
    
  • a lot of money
    
  • he made a mint on the stock market
    
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
    
  • it must have cost plenty
    
  • a slew of journalists
    
  • a wad of money
    

• a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

• a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

• soft semiliquid food
  • a mess of porridge
    

• informal terms for a difficult situation
  • he got into a terrible fix
    
  • he made a muddle of his marriage
    

• a state of confusion and disorderliness
  • the house was a mess
    
  • she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
    

Verb

• make a mess of or create disorder in
  • He messed up his room
    

• eat in a mess hall

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  batch , mess hall , fix , hole , jam , muddle , pickle , kettle of fish , messiness , muss , mussiness , mess up