hugger-mugger
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a state of confusion
he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance
Types & categories
- confusion hypernym
Related & opposite
- hugger mugger derivation
- hugger-mugger derivation
Sense 2 adjective
in utter disorder
a disorderly pile of clothes
Related & opposite
- disarray derivation
- chaos derivation
- hugger-mugger derivation
- untidy similar to
Sense 3 adverb
in secrecy
they did it all hugger-mugger
Sense 4 adjective
conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
clandestine intelligence operations
Related & opposite
- underground derivation
- covert similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hugger mugger |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hugger-mugger |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | confusion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disarray |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chaos |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hugger-mugger |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | untidy |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | underground |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | covert |