Noun

• S: (n) mess, messiness, muss, mussiness (a state of confusion and disorderliness) "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
• 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"
• S: (n) mess (soft semiliquid food) "a mess of porridge"
• S: (n) mess (a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel)
• S: (n) mess, mess hall (a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax)
• S: (n) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad ((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"

Verb

• S: (v) mess (eat in a mess hall)
• S: (v) mess, mess up (make a mess of or create disorder in) "He messed up his room"