different between organized vs shambolic

English

Alternative forms

• organised (British English)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????na?zd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????na?zd/
• Hyphenation: or?gan?ized

Adjective

organized (comparative more organized, superlative most organized)

1. Of a person, characterised by efficient organization.

   Your work desk is so neat and tidy - I've never met someone so organized before!

Translations

Verb

organized

1. simple past tense and past participle of organize

Derived terms

• organized crime

Anagrams

• dragonize

English

Etymology

shambles +? -o- +? -ic, in which the interconsonantal -o- avoids the /mbl/ consonant cluster. Possibly influenced by symbolic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?am?b?l?k/
• (General American) enPR: sh?m(')b?l??k, IPA^(key): /(?)?æm?b?l?k/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?æm?b?l?k/
• Rhymes: -?l?k
• Hyphenation: sham?bol?ic

Adjective

shambolic (comparative more shambolic, superlative most shambolic)

1. Chaotic, disorganised or mismanaged. [from 1952]

Derived terms

• shambolically
• shambolism

Related terms

• omnishambles
• sham
• shambles

Translations

Further reading

• “shambolic”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “shambolic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• choliambs