disorder

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: dis=or=der
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

disorder, n. & v.
--n.
1 a lack of order; confusion.
2 a riot; a commotion.
3 Med. a usu. minor ailment or disease.
--v.tr.
1 throw into confusion; disarrange.
2 Med. put out of good health; upset.

Etymology

ME, alt. after ORDER v. of earlier disordain f. OF desordener (as DIS-, ORDAIN)

THESAURUS

disorder

abnormality, acute disease, affection, afflict, affliction, affray, agitation, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, aloofness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, anomie, antinomianism, ataxia, atrophy, bacterial disease, badness, ball up, battle, battle royal, bedlam, befuddle, befuddlement, bewilderment, birth defect, blight, blobbiness, blur, blurriness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brawl, broadness, brouhaha, bustle, capriciousness, cardiovascular disease, changeability, changeableness, chaos, choppiness, chronic disease, churn, circulatory disease, civil disorder, clamor, cloud, clutter, commotion, complaint, complication, condition, confound, confuse, confusion, congenital defect, conturbation, convulsion, criminal syndicalism, dappleness, daze, debilitate, defect, deficiency disease, deform, deformity, degenerative disease, derange, derangement, deviation, devitalize, difference, differentiation, diffusion, disability, disable, disarrange, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcertion, discontinuity, discourtesy, discreteness, disease, dishevel, disjoint, disjunction, dislocate, dislocation, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, disorganize, disorientation, dispersal, dispersion, disquiet, disquietude, disrupt, disruption, disruptiveness, dissolution, distemper, distort, disturb, disturbance, divarication, divergence, diversification, ebullition, embarrassment, embroil, embroilment, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, enervate, enfeeble, entropy, epidemic disease, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fight, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, fog, fog up, fogginess, foment, formlessness, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frenzy, frowned-upon behavior, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, functional disease, fungus disease, fuss, fuzziness, gastrointestinal disease, generality, genetic disease, handicap, hash, haze, haziness, hereditary disease, hooliganism, horseplay, hospitalize, hubbub, huddle, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, iatrogenic disease, ill, ill-definedness, illness, imprecision, impropriety, inaccuracy, incapacitate, inchoateness, incoherence, inconsistency, inconstancy, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indispose, indisposition, inequality, inexactness, infectious disease, infirmity, inquietude, insanity, instability, invalid, irregularity, jerkiness, jitters, jumble, jumpiness, knock galley-west, laxity, lay up, litter, looseness, lynch law, maelstrom, malady, malaise, maze, melee, mercuriality, mess, mess up, messiness, misarrange, misarrangement, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, mishmash, misrule, mist, mistiness, mix up, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, moil, morbidity, morbus, motleyness, muddle, muddlement, muscular disease, muss, muss up, mutability, naughtiness, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, neurological disease, nihilism, nonadhesion, noncohesion, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonsanctioned behavior, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nutritional disease, obfuscate, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, occupational disease, ochlocracy, orderlessness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pandemonium, pathological condition, pathology, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, plant disease, pluralism, pother, primal chaos, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, pucker, raggedness, rebellion, reduce, respiratory disease, restlessness, revolution, riot, rockiness, roil, roughhouse, rout, row, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruffle, rummage, rumple, rumpus, scatter, scattering, scramble, scuffle, secondary disease, seediness, seethe, seething, separateness, shake up, shambles, shapelessness, shuffle, shuffling, sicken, sickishness, sickness, signs, snarl, stew, stir, sweat, sweepingness, swirl, swivet, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndicalism, syndrome, tangle, the pip, tizzy, to-do, tohubohu, topsy-turviness, tousle, trepidation, trepidity, tumble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twitter, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unclearness, unconformism, unconformity, unease, unevenness, unform, unhinge, unorthodoxy, unrest, unruliness, unsettle, unsettlement, unshape, unsteadiness, untenacity, untidiness, upheaval, uproar, upset, urogenital disease, vagueness, vandalism, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, venial sin, versatility, vice, violence, virus disease, wasting disease, wavering, weaken, worm disease, wrongdoing

ROGET THESAURUS

disorder

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Disorder

N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Derangement

N derangement, disorder, evection, discomposure, disturbance, disorganization, deorganization, dislocation, perturbation, interruption, shuffling, inversion, corrugation, involvement, interchange, deranged, syncretic, syncretistic, mussy, messy, flaky, random, unordered.

VB derange, disarrange, misarrange, displace, misplace, mislay, discompose, disorder, deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize, embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble, shuffle, randomize, huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot, bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder, muss, break the ranks, disconcert, convulse, break in upon, unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear, turn topsy-turvy, bedevil, complicate, involve, perplex, confound, imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle, rumple, litter, scatter, mix, rearrange.

Amorphism

N amorphism, informity, unlicked cub, rudis indigestaque moles, disorder, deformity, disfigurement, defacement, mutilation, deforming, chaos, randomness (disorder), fluid, shapeless, amorphous, formless, unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen, rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.