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say it: uhn-TAHY-dee
untidy is an adjective meaning "not neat and tidy". It carries one recorded sense.
not neat and tidy
“careless and untidy in her personal habits”
“an untidy living room”
“untidy and casual about money”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for untidy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.