DISARRANGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disarrangement mean? 

• DISARRANGEMENT (noun)
  The noun DISARRANGEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted

  Familiarity information: DISARRANGEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISARRANGEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disarrangement; disorganisation; disorganization

Hypernyms ("disarrangement" is a kind of...):

disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places)

Derivation:

disarrange (disturb the arrangement of)

disarrange (destroy the arrangement or order of)

 Context examples 

I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch—all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement—we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come; for, owing to some mistake, its arrival had hitherto been delayed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)