Disorder vs Vex - What's the difference?
disorder | vex | Related terms |
Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
(medicine) A physical or psychical malfunction.
To trouble aggressively, to harass.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:
To annoy, irritate.
To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
(rare) To twist, to weave.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
* Alexander Pope
Disorder is a related term of vex.
As nouns the difference between disorder and vex
is that disorder is absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner while vex is (space|esa).disorder
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Alternative forms
* disordre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- After playing the children left the room in disorder .
- The class was thrown into disorder when the teacher left the room
- The army tried to prevent disorder when claims the elections had been rigged grew stronger.
- Bulimia is an eating disorder .
Synonyms
* (absence of order) chaos, entropy; see also * (disturbance of civic peace) See alsoDerived terms
* autism spectrum disorder * borderline personality disorder * disordely * eating disorder * seasonal affective disorder * spectrum disordervex
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Verb
(es)- In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.
- Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
- some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
- (Chapman)
- White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.
