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: a person of mixed blood

messy adjective : marked by confusion, disorder, or dirt

Synonyms

chaotic, confused, disheveled, disordered, muddled, sloppy, unkempt, untidy; also blackened, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly; dowdy, frowsy, slatternly, slovenly, uncombed; wrinkled; contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted; knotted, snarled, tangled; shabby, sleazy; neglected, neglectful, negligent

Antonyms

neat, ordered, orderly, tidy

1met past and past participle of MEET

2met abbreviation metropolitan

me·tab·o·lism noun : the processes by which the substance of plants and animals incidental to life is built up and broken down; also : the processes by which a substance is handled in the living body <~ of sugar>

— met·a·bol·ic adjective

— me·tab·o·lize verb

me·tab·o·lite noun 1 : a product of metabolism

2 : a substance essential to the metabolism of a particular organism or to a metabolic process

meta·car·pal noun : any of usu. five more or less elongated bones of the part of the hand or forefoot between the wrist and the bones of the digits

— metacarpal adjective

meta·car·pus noun : the part of the hand or forefoot that contains the metacarpals

met·al noun 1 : any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat

2 : METTLE; also : the material out of which a person or thing is made

— me·tal·lic adjective

met·al·lur·gy noun : the science and technology of metals

— met·al·lur·gi·cal adjective

— met·al·lur·gist noun

met·al·ware noun : metal utensils for household use

met·al·work noun : work and esp. artistic work made of metal

— met·al·work·er noun

— met·al·work·ing noun

meta·mor·phism noun : a change in the structure of rock; especially : a change to a more compact and more highly crystalline form produced by pressure, heat, and water

— meta·mor·phic adjective

meta·mor·phose verb 1 : to change into a different physical form esp. by supernatural means

2 : to change strikingly the appearance or character of

Synonyms

convert, make over, transfigure, transform—more at CONVERT

meta·mor·pho·sis noun, plural -pho·ses 1 a : a change of physical form, structure, or substance esp. by supernatural means

b : a striking alteration (as in appearance or character)

2 : a fundamental change in form and often habits of an animal accompanying the transformation of a larva into an adult

Synonyms

changeover, conversion, transfiguration, transformation—more at CONVERSION

met·a·phor noun : a figure of speech in which a word for one idea or thing is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them (as in “the ship plows the sea”)

— met·a·phor·ic or met·a·phor·i·cal adjective

— met·a·phor·i·cal·ly adverb

meta·phys·i·cal adjective 1 : of or relating to metaphysics

2 : of or relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses

Synonyms

preternatural, superhuman, supernatural, unearthly—more at SUPERNATURAL

meta·phys·ics noun [ORIGIN: ML Metaphysica, title of Aristotle's treatise on the subject, fr. Gk (ta)meta (ta)physika, lit., the (works) after the physical (works); fr. its position in his collected works]

: the philosophical study of the ultimate causes and underlying nature of things

— meta·phy·si·cian noun

me·tas·ta·sis noun, plural -ta·ses : the spread of a health-impairing agency (as cancer cells) from the initial or primary site of disease to another part of the body; also : a secondary growth of a malignant tumor

— me·tas·ta·size verb

— met·a·stat·ic adjective

meta·tar·sal noun : any of the bones of the foot between the tarsus and the bones of the digits that in humans include five elongated bones

— metatarsal adjective

meta·tar·sus noun : the part of the human foot or the hind foot in quadrupeds that contains the metatarsals

1mete verb met·ed; met·ing 1 archaic : MEASURE

2 : to