Adjective

(er)

In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}

(of a person) Prone to causing mess.

(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder.

Deranged.

* 1919 , :

The frenzy which had unsettled the mind of the hermit was by him communicated to his hearers who, sinking into a trance, fell easy victims to the fearful visions of a disordered mind.