clutter

[ kluht-er ]

/ ˈklʌt ər /

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verb (used with object)

to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner: All kinds of papers cluttered the top of his desk.

verb (used without object)

British Dialect. to run in disorder; move with bustle and confusion.

British Dialect. to make a clatter.

to speak so rapidly and inexactly that distortions of sound and phrasing result.

noun

a disorderly heap or assemblage; litter: It's impossible to find anything in all this clutter.

a state or condition of confusion.

confused noise; clatter.

an echo or echoes on a radar screen that do not come from the target and can be caused by such factors as atmospheric conditions, objects other than the target, chaff, and jamming of the radar signal.

Words nearby clutter

cluster point, cluster variable, clutch, clutch bag, clutha, clutter, clwyd, clyde, clydebank, clydesdale, clype

Origin of clutter

1550–60; variant of clotter (now obsolete), equivalent to clot + -er⁶

SYNONYMS FOR clutter

5 mess, disorder, jumble.

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OTHER WORDS FROM clutter

o·ver·clut·ter, verb (used with object)un·clut·ter, verb (used with object)un·clut·tered, adjective

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Examples from the Web for clutter

Magazines are the only thing in my apartment that qualify as clutter.
I’m a Digital Hoarder|Lizzie Crocker|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Using the above apps can cut out the clutter, get you the best deals right away, and streamline your travels.
The Best Travel Apps for Road Warriors|Matthew Kepnes|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Picking real targets from false targets and clutter is still down to operators.
Tomorrow’s Stealthy Subs Could Sink America’s Navy|Bill Sweetman|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The real, true, unguarded details tend to cut through the clutter.
Jon Huntsman: The Only Cool Republican?|McKay Coppins|April 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST

The problem with thinning out this clutter lies in the fact that any American citizen 35 or older can be president.
All the Also-Rans for President|Jack W. Germond|March 29, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Proving conclusively that clutter, as to dress, is entirely a matter of value.
Long Live the King|Mary Roberts Rinehart
Coffee splashed over the rim of his cup onto the clutter of papers.
The Plague|Teddy Keller
As he remembered it, the room, though of good size and comfortable enough, had been a clutter of purely masculine belongings.
Shoe-Bar Stratton|Joseph Bushnell Ames
There was a clutter of odds and ends of cargo that had been spilled from an upset surfboat the day before.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell
Small wonder in such a clutter that the rooms frequently had other tenantry than the human occupants.
Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony|George Francis Dow

British Dictionary definitions for clutter

clutter

/ (ˈklʌtə) /

verb

(usually tr often foll by up) to strew or amass (objects) in a disorderly manner

(intr) to move about in a bustling manner

(intr) to chatter or babble

noun

a disordered heap or mass of objects

a state of disorder

unwanted echoes that confuse the observation of signals on a radar screen

Word Origin for clutter

C15 clotter, from clotteren to clot

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