ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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 † , deranged; aimless; disorganized;
straggling; unmethodical, immethodical † ; unsymmetric † , unsystematic; untidy, slovenly;
dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged &c
(arrange) &c 60; confused; deranged &c 61; topsy-turvy &c (inverted) 218; shapeless &c
241; disjointed, out of joint.
troublous † ; riotous &c (violent) 173.
complex &c 59.1.
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; hysteron proteron [Gr.]; chaos is come again; the wreck of
matter and the crush of worlds [Addison].
59a. Complexity -- N. complexity; complexness &c adj.; complexus † ; complication,
implication; intricacy, intrication † ; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle;
involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c (convolution) 248; sleave † , tangled skein,
knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl † ; webwork † .
[complexity if a task or action] difficulty &c 704.
V. complexify † , complicate.
Adj. gnarled, knarled † .
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 † , graduation, organization; grouping;
tabulation.
analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion.
[Result of arrangement] digest; synopsis &c (compendium) 596; syntagma [Gramm.],
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.