Cluttered

Definition: Cluttered

Cluttered

Adjective

1. Filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish; "the storm left the driveway littered with sticks and debris"; "his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair".

Date "cluttered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Cluttered

Synonym: littered (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cluttered

English words defined with "cluttered": busy ♦ fussy ♦ littered. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cluttered": mouse trails. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cluttered

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Gosh, Rose, you miss nothing do you? I had originally intended for there to be more, but it was thought by some that it would make the decks seem too cluttered. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)
Lyrics	As the cluttered streets greet me once again (Thirty-Three; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)
Clever	A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cluttered

Domain	Title
Books	Evidence of a Cluttered Mind: The New Testament (reference) Simply Organized: The Life You'Ve Always Searched For...but Were to Cluttered to Find (reference) Summer Wine, Vintage Years: A Cluttered Life, Memoirs of an Actor [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cluttered

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Photo Album: Cluttered

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[A cluttered room]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Man cleaning chest of drawers in cluttered room. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Cluttered

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The entrance, on the gunnysack side, was cluttered with equipment.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: Cluttered

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	For our national household is cluttered with unfinished and neglected tasks.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Cluttered

"Cluttered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 44.23% of the time. "Cluttered" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	44.23%	46	50,285
Lexical Verb (past participle)	36.54%	38	55,818
Lexical Verb (past tense)	19.23%	20	78,262
Total	100.00%	104	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cluttered

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "cluttered": un-cluttered.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cluttered

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cluttered desk	6
cheralyns closet cluttered	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cluttered

Language		Translations for "cluttered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		凌乱 (Clutter, Cluttering). (various references)

German		voller Unordnung, nicht aufgeräumt, überhäufte (glutted). (various references)

Hungarian		zsúfolt (beehive, congested, crowded, jam-packed, packed), rendetlen (deranged, dingy, disorderly, erratic, flipperty-flopperty, higgledy-piggledy, messy, pell mell, ragged, rooky, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, snuffy, straggly, tumultuous, unkempt, untidy). (various references)

Indonesian		resek. (various references)

Pig Latin		utteredclay

Serbo-Croatian		zatrpan (covered), pretrpan (congested, overcrowded, overladen). (various references)

Turkish		darmadağın (crabbed, crabby). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cluttered

Derivations
	Words ending with "cluttered": uncluttered. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cluttered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cuttaree, Lutterel, Lutterodt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cluttered"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cluttered" (pronounced klu"terd)
6	k l u" t er d	uncluttered.
5	-l u" t er d	fluttered.
4	-u" t er d	buttered, guttered, muttered, shuttered, sputtered, uttered.
3	-t er d	administered, altered, bantered, bartered, bastard, battered, bettered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, catered, centered, chartered, cloistered, clustered, countered, cratered, custard, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, festered, fettered, filibustered, filtered, flattered, flustered, fostered, frittered, glittered, headquartered, lettered, littered, martyred, mastered, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, mustard, mustered, neutered, pattered, pestered, petard, petered, plastered, reentered, registered, scattered, sequestered, shattered, sheltered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, unfettered, unfiltered, unregistered, upholstered, watered, wintered.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cluttered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-l-r-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: curetted, lectured, relucted.
	-2 letters: clutter, curette, cuttled, eructed, lecture, lettuce, turtled, ulcered, uttered.
	-3 letters: curdle, curled, cutler, cutlet, cutter, cuttle, detect, dueler, dulcet, eluder, eluted, letted, letter, reduce, reluct, retted, rutted, teledu, tercel, tercet, truced, turtle.
	-4 letters: ceder, cered, clued, creed, creel, crude, cruel, cruet, culet, cured, curet, cuter, deter, deuce, educe, educt, elder.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-l-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: reluctated.
	+2 letters: reticulated, uncluttered.
	+3 letters: destructible, electrocuted, recultivated, tuberculated, turtlenecked.
	+4 letters: destructively, rearticulated, recapitulated, trinucleotide.
	+5 letters: counterplotted, indestructible, multielectrode, trinucleotides.
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