Messy vs Massy - What's the difference?
messy | massy |
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
Heavy; massive.
* 1587, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
* 1874 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic
* 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics , volume 1, ISBN 0-7803-7922-5, abstract, pages 70-73
* 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
As adjectives the difference between messy and massy
is that messy is in a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly while massy is heavy; massive.As a noun massy is
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English
Adjective
(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}
Synonyms
(in a disorderly state) untidy, chaotic, disorderly, clutteredAntonyms
* neat * orderlyDerived terms
* messily * messinessDescendants
* German: (l)External links
* *massy
English
Adjective
(er)- Their plumed helms are wrought with beaten gold, / Their swords enamell'd, and about their necks / Hang massy chains of gold down to the waist;
- When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro
- We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.
Noun
(head)- "But Lors ha' massy , how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...