What is the meaning of mess?

noun

• A state of confusion and disorderliness.
  • usage: "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
  • synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness
• Informal terms for a difficult situation.
  • usage: "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
  • synonyms: fix, hole, jam, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
• Soft semiliquid food.
  • usage: "a mess of porridge"
• A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel.
• A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax.
  • synonyms: mess hall
• Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
  • usage: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

verb

• Eat in a mess hall.
• Make a mess of or create disorder in.
  • usage: "He messed up his room"
  • synonyms: mess up