Noun

• S: (n) clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother (a confused multitude of things)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) disorderliness, disorder (a condition in which things are not in their expected places) "the files are in complete disorder"
• S: (n) condition, status (a state at a particular time) "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish (informal terms for a difficult situation) "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

Verb

• S: (v) muddle, puddle (make into a puddle) "puddled mire"
• S: (v) addle, muddle, puddle (mix up or confuse) "He muddled the issues"