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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disordered \Dis*or"dered\, adjective
1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.
2. Disorderly. [Obs.] --Shak. -- {Dis*or"dered*ly}, adverb -- {Dis*or"dered*ness}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disorder \Dis*or"der\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Disordered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disordering}.]
1. To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. --Burke.
The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. --Jer. Taylor.
2. To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. --Macaulay.
3. To depose from holy orders. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disordered
adjective
1: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: {broken}, {confused}, {upset}]
2: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: {confused}, {disconnected}, {disjointed}, {garbled}, {illogical}, {scattered}, {unconnected}]
3: not arranged in order [syn: {unordered}] [ant: {ordered}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "disordered": aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amiss, amorphous, askew, awry, balled-up, batty, bedlamite, blobby, blurred, blurry, bothered, broad, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, chaotic, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, cracked, crazed, crazy, demented, deranged, desultory, disarranged, disarticulated, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate, disturbed, embarrassed, erratic, fitful, flustered, fluttered, foggy, formless, frivolous, fussed, fuzzy, general, gratuitous, haphazard, haywire, hazy, hit-or-miss, hypochondriac, hysteric, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, irregular, jumbled, lax, loose, lunatic, meaningless, misplaced, misshapen, mixed-up, muddled, neurasthenic, neurotic, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, on the fritz, orderless, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perplexed, perturbed, phobic, planless, promiscuous, psychasthenic, psychoneurotic, put-out, random, rattled, roily, ruffled, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaken, shapeless, shook, shuffled, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, sweeping, systemless, turbid, turbulent, unarranged, unclassified, unclear, unconnected, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unsettled, unsorted, unspecified, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, upset, vague, veiled, wandering
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