Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
1. ORDER IN GENERAL
869 words | Chapter 17
#58. Order.—N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus
ordo[Lat]; music of the spheres. gradation, progression; series &c.
(continuity) 69. subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method,
disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline
orderliness &c. adj. rank, place &c. (term) 71. V. be in order, become
in order &c. adj.; form, fall in, draw up; arrange itself, range
itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take one's place, take
one's rank; rally round. adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize. Adj.
orderly, regular; in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper
place; neat, tidy, en regle[Fr], well regulated, correct, methodical,
uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused
&c. (see confuse &c. 61); arranged &c. 60. Adv. in order; methodically
&c. adj.; in -turn, - its turn; step by step; by regular -steps,
-gradations, -stages, -intervals; seriatim, systematically, by
clockwork, gradatim[Lat]; at stated periods &c. (periodically) 138.
Phr. natura non facit saltum[Lat]; "order is heaven's first law"
[Pope]; "order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium
dispariumque rerum sua loca tribuens dispositio [Lat][St. Augustine].
#59. [Absence, or want of Order, &c.] Disorder.—N. disorder;
derangement &c. 61; irregularity; anomaly &c. (unconformity) 83;
anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c. adj.; disunion;
discord &c. 24. confusion; confusedness &c. adj.; mishmash, mix;
disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage[obs3]; farrago;
mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch[obs3],
hotch-pot[obs3]; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum[Lat], medley; mere
mixture &c. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra[Lat],
rudis indigestaque moles [Lat][Ovid]. complexity &c. 59a. turmoil;
ferment &c. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder[obs3], pother, row,
rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution,
riot, rumpus, stour[obs3], scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb [baseball],
fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill
and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind &c. 349; bear garden, Babel,
Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded,
most admired disorder, concordia discors[Lat]; Bedlam, all hell broke
loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a'
quatre[Fr], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of
work[Fr], pretty piece of business[Fr]. [legal terms] disorderly
person; disorderly persons offence; misdemeanor. [moral disorder]
slattern, slut (libertine) 962. V. be disorderly &c. adj.; ferment,
play at cross-purposes. put out of order; derange &c. 61; ravel &c.
219; ruffle, rumple. Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of
place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous &c. (unconformable)
83; acephalous[obs3], deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling;
unmethodical, immethodical[obs3]; unsymmetric[obs3], unsystematic;
untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous,
indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged &c. (see arrange &c.
60)[obs3]; confused; deranged &c. 61; topsy-turvy &c. (inverted) 218;
shapeless &c. 241; disjointed, out of joint. troublous[obs3]; riotous
&c. (violent) 173. complex &c. 59a. Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits,
by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy;
helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at
cross-purposes; upside down &c. 218. Phr. the cart before the horse;
ὔστερον πρότερον[Grk]; chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and
the crush of worlds" [Addison].
#59a. Complexity—N. complexity; complexness &c. adj.;
complexus[obs3]; complication, implication; intricacy,
intrication[obs3]; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle;
involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c. (convolution) 248;
sleave[obs3], tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels;
kink, gnarl, knarl[obs3]; webwork[obs3]. [complexity if a task or
action] difficulty &c. 704. V. complexify[obs3], complicate. Adj.
gnarled, knarled[obs3]. complex, complexed; intricate, complicated,
perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled,
inextricable; irreducible.
#60. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement.—N. arrangement; plan &c.
626; preparation &c. 673; disposal, disposition; collocation,
allocation; distribution; sorting &c. v.; assortment, allotment,
apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis[obs3], graduation,
organization; grouping; tabulation. analysis, classification,
clustering, division, digestion. [Result of arrangement] digest;
synopsis &c. (compendium) 596; syntagma[Gram], table, atlas; file,
database; register &c. (record) 551; organism, architecture.
[Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter. V. reduce to
order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose,
place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out,
collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot,
distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign
places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights,
put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion. class, classify;
divide; file, string together, thread; register &c. (record) 551;
catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade. methodize,
regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix. unravel,
disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil[obs3]; feaze[obs3]. Adj. arranged
&c. v.; embattled, in battle array; cut and dried; methodical, orderly,
regular, systematic. Phr. "In vast cumbrous array" [Churchill].
#61. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement.—N.
derangement &c. v.; disorder &c. 59; evection[obs3], discomposure,
disturbance; disorganization, deorganization[obs3]; dislocation;
perturbation, interruption; shuffling &c. v.; inversion &c. 218;
corrugation &c. (fold) 258; involvement. interchange &c. 148. V.
derange; disarrange, misarrange[obs3]; displace, misplace; mislay,
discompose, disorder; deorganize[obs3], discombobulate, disorganize;
embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble;
shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring
into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder &c. 59; muss
[U.S.]; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon. unhinge,
dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear. turn topsy-turvy &c.
(invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound;
imbrangle[obs3], embrangle[obs3], tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle,
towzle[obs3], dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c. (fold) 258. litter, scatter;
mix &c. 41. rearrange &c. 148. Adj. deranged &c. v.; syncretic,
syncretistic[obs3]; mussy, messy; flaky; random, unordered [U.S.].
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