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orderly
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of ORDERLY
1
being clean and in good order <a small, unpretentious inn offering pleasant, orderly rooms>
Synonyms antiseptic, bandbox, crisp, groomed, kempt, orderly, picked up, prim, shipshape, smug, snug, tidied, tidy, trig, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed
Related Words dapper, natty, saucy, smart, spiffy, spruce; immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless; rakish, sleek, streamlined, taut; organized, straight, systematic
Near Antonyms scruffy, seedy, shabby, slipshod, sloppy; dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, sordid, squalid; dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), rumpled, tousled, tumbled; disorganized, unsystematic
Antonyms disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, messy, mussed, mussy, sloven, slovenly, unkempt, untidy
2
following a set method, arrangement, or pattern <the consultant developed an orderly procedure that allows us to process our Internet sales much more quickly and efficiently>
Related Words ordered, regularized, standardized, structured; accurate, clocklike, correct, exact, precise; detailed, specific
Antonyms disorganized, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, irregular, nonsystematic, patternless, planless, systemless, unsystematic
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