Definition for Shambles:

• ( often w. sing. constr.). Butchers\' slaughter-house; scene of carnage( the place became a s.). [ old English]

Synonyms for Shambles:

• n.

  •
  • pit,
  • tip,
  • slum,
  • jungle.
  •bedlam (noun)
  • din,
  • racket,
  • clamor,
  • hubbub,
  • tumult,
  • furor,
  • turmoil,
  • uproar,
  • disquietude,
  • pandemonium,
  • disquiet,
  • commotion.
  •butchery (noun)
  • butchery.
  •carnage (noun)
  • blood bath,
  • killing,
  • rapine,
  • search and destroy,
  • warfare,
  • blood,
  • holocaust,
  • butchering,
  • crime,
  • slaughter,
  • mass murder,
  • wasting,
  • bloodshed,
  • homicide,
  • taking out,
  • gore,
  • offing,
  • liquidation,
  • manslaughter,
  • annihilation,
  • murder,
  • extermination,
  • slayings,
  • hecatomb,
  • blitz,
  • blood and guts,
  • slaying.
  •confusion (noun)
  • consternation,
  • astonishment,
  • daze,
  • riot,
  • complexity,
  • surprise,
  • complication,
  • intricacy,
  • difficulty,
  • haze,
  • row,
  • distraction,
  • fog,
  • mistake,
  • bustle,
  • untidiness,
  • mystification,
  • dislocation,
  • perturbation,
  • discomposure,
  • stir,
  • imbroglio,
  • wilderness,
  • trouble,
  • ado,
  • ferment,
  • abashment,
  • fracas,
  • upheaval.
  •crowded, wild, and chaotic place (noun)
  • zoo.
  •disarrangement (noun)
  • dis arrangements,
  • dis-orderednesses,
  • dis arrangement,
  • dis-arrangements,
  • dis-orderedness,
  • dis orderedness,
  • dis-arrangement,
  • dis orderednesses.
  •disarray (noun)
  • disharmony,
  • snarl,
  • disarrangement,
  • unruliness,
  • upset.
  •disorder (noun)
  • disorderliness,
  • huddle,
  • derangement,
  • misrule,
  • muss,
  • topsyturviness,
  • rat's nest,
  • irregularity,
  • discombobulation.
  •hash (noun)
  • litter,
  • miscellany,
  • medley,
  • mishmash,
  • assortment,
  • stew,
  • salmagundi.
  •havoc (noun)
  • desolation,
  • damage,
  • ruination,
  • cataclysm,
  • vandalism,
  • disruption,
  • plunder,
  • Despoiling,
  • calamity,
  • wreck,
  • devastation,
  • havoc,
  • destruction,
  • catastrophe,
  • loss,
  • rack and ruin,
  • ravages,
  • dilapidation,
  • mayhem,
  • wreckage,
  • waste.
  •hulk (noun)
  • bulk,
  • frame,
  • skeleton,
  • clump,
  • chunk,
  • body,
  • clod,
  • blob,
  • shell,
  • hull,
  • ruins,
  • mass,
  • hunk.
  •rout (noun)
  • over throws,
  • over-throw,
  • clobberings,
  • re treats,
  • re-treat,
  • hidings,
  • re-treats,
  • over-throws,
  • over throw.
  •shambles (noun)
  • babel,
  • botch,
  • abattoir,
  • disorganization,
  • madhouse,
  • Hodge-podge,
  • maelstrom,
  • chaos,
  • anarchy.
  •slaughterhouse (noun)
  • Abattoirs,
  • stockyards,
  • stockyard.
  •wreckage (noun)
  • re mains,
  • re-mains,
  • re-main,
  • re main.
  •zoo (noun)
  • three-ring circus.

• v.

  •shamble (verb)
  • discompose,
  • change,
  • disrupt,
  • scuff,
  • scuffle,
  • disorganize,
  • confuse,
  • dislocate,
  • jumble,
  • change the order,
  • intermix,
  • disarrange,
  • shift,
  • break the deck,
  • disturb.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bomb site,
  • squalor,
  • hovel,
  • pigsty,
  • rat trap,
  • entropy.
  •
  • clutter,
  • foul up,
  • pigpen,
  • snafu,
  • mudbath,
  • disaster area.
  •
  • fright.
  •
  • tangle.

Paraphrases for Shambles:

• Independent

  • Noun, plural
    Slaughterhouses, wrecks, ravages.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    havoc.

• Other Related

  • Noun, plural
    disasters, tatters, chaos.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    mess, disarray, muddle, mayhem, confusion, disaster, chaos, turmoil, jumble.

Antonyms for Shambles:

• n.

  • bedlam
    peace, quiet, calm.
  • confusion
    composure, method, clarity, orientation, system.
  • disarray
    harmony, orderliness, arrangement.
  • disorder
    conformity.
  • hulk
    bit.
  • shambles
    organization.

• n. pl.

  • Other antonyms:
    pattern, plan, order.

Shambles Sentence Examples:

• Inside the room was no more than a shambles.

• Then he dropped like an ox in the shambles.

Homophones for Shambles:

• snowplough, semipublic, symbolic, symploce, symplocus, sunblock, simplex, someplace, symplocaceae, skin flick, symbolize, snowflake, shambolic, Symbology, symbolise.

Hyponym for Shambles:

• n.

  • state
    disorder, disorderliness.