Measly vs Messy - What's the difference?
measly | messy |
Small in amount, contemptibly so.
Infected with measles
Infected with larval tapeworms
Infected with trichinae
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
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, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
As an adjective measly
is small in amount, contemptibly so or measly can be infected with measles.As a noun messy is
.measly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)messy
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.}}