disheveled Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb disarrange or rumple; dishevel
    tousle; dishevel; tangle.
    • The strong wind tousled my hair
  2. adjective satellite in disarray; extremely disorderly
    tousled; frowzled; rumpled; dishevelled.
    • her clothing was disheveled
    • powder-smeared and frowzled
    • a rumpled unmade bed
    • a bed with tousled sheets
    • his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers

WordNet


Di*shev"eled adjective
Definitions
  1. Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.
  2. Having the hair in loose disorder.
    The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads. J. A. Symonds.

Webster 1913