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Messy vs Massy - What's the difference?

messy | massy |

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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messy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
  • (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
  • Synonyms

    (in a disorderly state) untidy, chaotic, disorderly, cluttered

    Antonyms

    * neat * orderly

    Derived terms

    * messily * messiness

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    massy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Heavy; massive.
  • * 1587, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
  • 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;
  • * 1874 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic
  • When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro
  • * 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics , volume 1, ISBN 0-7803-7922-5, abstract, pages 70-73
  • 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)
  • * 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
  • "But Lors ha' massy , how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...
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