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comparative messier, superlative messiest
(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. quotations examples
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.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
(of a person) Prone to causing mess. examples
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with. examples