Definition of Orderly

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Orderly

Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.

Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.

Performed in good or established order; well-regulated.

Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.

According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.

A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.

A street sweeper.

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Orderly Quotations

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Eric Hoffer

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Xun Zi

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.
David Bohm

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. Wells

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck

Orderly Translations

orderly in German is ordentlich, ordentlich, geordnet
orderly in Latin is compositus, modestus, ordinatus

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