Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble.
- noun A confused noise; a clatter.
- intransitive verb To fill or spread over in a disorderly manner.
- intransitive verb To make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects.
- intransitive verb To run or move with bustle and confusion.
- intransitive verb To make a clatter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To clot; coagulate.
- To become clotted or coagulated.
- noun A heap or collection of things lying in confusion; confusion; litter; disorder.
- To crowd together in disorder; fill with things in confusion: often with up: as, to
clutter the things all together; to clutter up the house. - To make a bustle or disturbance.
- To jumble words together in speaking, clipping syllables and dropping consonants.
- noun Confused noise; bustle; clatter; turmoil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To clot or coagulate, as blood.
- intransitive verb To make a confused noise; to bustle.
- noun A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder.
- noun Clatter; confused noise.
- transitive verb To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
confused disordered jumble of things - noun
background echos , fromclouds etc, on aradar screen - verb to
fill something with clutter - verb obsolete, intransitive To
clot orcoagulate , likeblood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
- verb fill a space in a disorderly way
- noun a confused multitude of things
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word clutter.
Examples
-
The word clutter is often associated with chaos, disorganization, and mess.
SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life Julie Morgenstern 2008
-
The word clutter is often associated with chaos, disorganization, and mess.
SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life Julie Morgenstern 2008
-
I think the clutter is the biggest problem I have, and I plan to tackle it with a vengeance this week!
Worrying About Money 2008
-
Combine that with the year end tendency to divest and true middle age anxiety, and guess what i will be doing for the rest of the weekend? to be fair, my 'clutter' is no where NEAR as bad as I think it is, but i have 'issues'.
what you wish for 2008
-
Combine that with the year end tendency to divest and true middle age anxiety, and guess what i will be doing for the rest of the weekend? to be fair, my 'clutter' is no where NEAR as bad as I think it is, but i have 'issues'.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
-
This is the definition of clutter that I embrace in my work and in this book.
Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011
-
But clearing out the clutter is well worth a bit of your time and effort.
Women Grow Business » Jump Start Your Productivity With Spring Cleaning 2010
-
No matter how I try to organize it, clutter is always attracted to its surface.
-
So, I removed that clutter from the short and rewrote it.
Arcana Magi Behind the Scenes: The Making of Arcana Magi Universe H-M Brown 2011
-
This is the definition of clutter that I embrace in my work and in this book.
Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.