orderly

1. 1.

   a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer

   “the orderly laid out the general's uniform”

   Broaderattendantsoldier
2. 2.

   a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients

   Synonymshospital attendant

   Broaderattendant

1. 1.

   devoid of violence or disruption

   “an orderly crowd confronted the president”

   Antonymsdisorderly
2. 2.

   clean or organized

   “her neat dress”

   “a neat room”

   Synonymsneat

   Similartidy

Other forms of orderly

plural

orderlies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orderly

What does orderly mean?

orderly means "a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orderly?

orderly has 3 syllables: or-der-ly. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹdɚli/.

What is another word for orderly?

Close synonyms include hospital attendant, neat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of orderly?

The recorded antonyms are disorderly.

Is orderly a common word?

orderly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.