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untidying

untidying is the present participle and gerund of untidy.

Meaning of untidy

Verb

untidy (third-person singular simple present untidies, present participle untidying, simple past and past participle untidied)

  1. (transitive) To make untidy, to make a mess
    • Before she closed each drawer she rummaged her hands through the clothes, untidying them just enough to feel comfortable.2014, Jennie Shortridge, Love Water Memory, page 116
    Synonyms:
    dishevel

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Questions about untidying

What is untidying the present participle and gerund of?
Untidying is the present participle and gerund of untidy.

Words near untidying in the dictionary

  1. untidiest
  2. untidily
  3. untidiness
  4. untidinesses
  5. untidy
  6. untidying
  7. untidyness
  8. untie
  9. untieable
  10. untied
  11. untieing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untidying (page history and authors); untidy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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