Clutter

Quick meaning: Clutter is a noun meaning (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.

Meaning

(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
2. (countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
3. (mathematics) A Sperner family.
4. (transitive) To fill something with clutter.
5. (intransitive) To make a confused noise; to bustle.
6. (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.

Example Sentences

It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls

He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits.

Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.

It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once[…]

Word Forms

• clutters
• cluttering
• cluttered

Synonyms for clutter

Depending on context, synonyms include muddle, welter, smother, jumble.

Antonyms for clutter

Common opposites include clear, unclutter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include muddle, welter, jumble, smother, junk, messy.

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