orderly B1 Topic:Health & Medicine US /ˈɔɹdɚli/ UK /ˈɔːdəli/ See IPA manual Freq #10099 Meanings 1 adj Neat, tidy, and well arranged. He kept an orderly desk with everything in its place. 2 adj Calm and well-behaved; free from trouble or violence. The crowd left the stadium in an orderly manner. 3 noun A hospital attendant who does non-medical work such as moving patients. An orderly wheeled the patient down to the ward. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · neat, tidy, and well arranged. tidyregular More methodicallyneatprestrulyshipshapesystematicallytighttiptoptoshtrigtrim ↔ Opposites disorderly Word family Forms orderliesorderliness Derived forms disorderlymisorderlynonorderlyorderlinessunorderly Related forms cleanpresentablerestrained Common collocations orderly sergeant Adjective + noun Etymology AI details From order + -ly. Topics Health & Medicine External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # orderly **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** adj, noun **IPA (US):** /ˈɔɹdɚli/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈɔːdəli/ **Frequency rank:** 10099 ## Meanings 1. Neat, tidy, and well arranged. 2. Calm and well-behaved; free from trouble or violence. 3. A hospital attendant who does non-medical work such as moving patients. ## Examples - He kept an orderly desk with everything in its place. - The crowd left the stadium in an orderly manner. - An orderly wheeled the patient down to the ward. ## Synonyms - methodically - neat - prest - ruly - shipshape - systematically - tidy - tight - tiptop - tosh - trig - trim ## Antonyms - disorderly ## Derived Forms - disorderly - misorderly - nonorderly - orderliness - unorderly ## Related Forms - clean - presentable - restrained ## Etymology From order + -ly. ## AI Etymology Orderly comes from order + -ly. Modern senses include neat, tidy, and well arranged and calm and well-behaved; free from trouble or violence. The wider word family includes derivatives such as disorderly, misorderly, nonorderly, orderliness, and unorderly and related forms such as clean, presentable, and restrained. ## Topics - Health & Medicine markdown