Meaning

(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

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

October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison

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

That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls

It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle.

Word Forms

• clutters
• cluttering
• cluttered

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