めちゃくちゃ

Etymology
This etymology is hypothetical. Since that shifted to  by, there may be an idea raised that a  ("ruined tea" or thus, "wrongly prepared tea") would be a  ("bitter tea"), which would also favor the sense of four-character idioms or.

Adjective

 * 1) absurd, unreasonable, illogical
 * 2) incoherent, disorderly, messy
 * 3) * 1818,, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Japanese translation by Giichi Shishido
 * 4) reckless, excessive
 * 1) reckless, excessive


 * 1) ruined, destroyed

Adverb

 * 1) very, really
 * 2) * 1914-17,, , Japanese translation by Yū Ōkubo
 * 1) * 1914-17,, , Japanese translation by Yū Ōkubo