disorder

noun

Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.

(medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction.

A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.

verb

(transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.

(transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

Roots

disdis- · Latin · apart, not ordo-order · Latin · order, arrangement

Synonyms for disorder

disorderlinessn disarrayn derangementn syndromen disturbancen ataxian disquietn symptomsn disarrangementn chaosn

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Where does disorder come from?

The word disorder breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: dis-, from Latin dis (“apart, not”); and -order, from Latin ordo (“order, arrangement”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.